AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8965, 24 August 1892, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE BROKEN HILL MINES.

- Sydney, August 23. It is expected there will be exciting times at Broken Hill on Thursday, when the mines will be re-opened.' SUPPRESSION OF LARRIKINISM. . Sydney, August 23. ; Drastic measures for the suppression of larrikinism have been drafted by the Minister of Justice. THE FRANK GUY. Sydney, August 23. . The Auckland three-masted schooner Frank Guy, which is aShore at Woollgoolga, has four feet of water in her well. Her mizzen-mast is gone, but if the Weather moderates it is .expected she will be floated off. THE CABLE RATES. ~ Adelaide, August 23. The Eastern. Extension Cable Company has agreed to increase the cable rates ; as it will be necessary to obtain the approval of other Governments, including Germany, Russia, ahd India, it will be impossible to complete formalities in connection with the new scale of rates before October 1. ,7," Sydney, Afigust 23. Mr. Kidd, the Postmaster-General, has. suggested to the Victorian overmen that the increased cable rates should be collected at this end, and held in trust until the Cable Company lias completed all formalities. : THE SANGUIRERUPTION. > Sydney, August 23. News from Sanguir Island } the scene of th£ recent terrible eruption, shows that . the volcano "is .quieting down. Hundreds of bodies have been found on the lowlands. A portion. of the crater broke away, and swept . a torrent of boiling mud down the mountain side. Enormous volumes of smoke are still pouring from several craters, r. The islands - are now- covered with furiousboiling wells and Springs of mud. • j