CABLE BREVITIES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1182, 26 October 1894, Page 30

CABLE BREVITIES.

For some time past rumours have been current that another rich find of gold has been made at Coolgardie, but that it was kept a close secret. I't is now learnt that the discovery was made by a prospctor named Downly and his party at Siberia, and the information was not disclosed as it was thought a rush would be disastrous owing to the scarcity of water. The specimens sent in are fully one-third gold, of a flaky character. Smith, teller in the Grafton (New South Wales) brauch of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, who was charged with the robbery of <£looo, the property of the bank, has been acquitted. A deputation representing the unemployed waited on tho Victorian Premier (Mr Turner), urging that relief be extended to them. The Premier replied that while he would do all in- his power to start a public subscription, under no circumstances would the Government be influenced by an unemployed demonstration. Ho said it was a strange thing that all through the winter the unemployed were quiescent, and they only awoke to activity when the new Government took office. Several members of the deputation abused the Premier before leaving. A Bill has been introduced into the New South Wales Legislative Assembly empowering the Sydney Municipal Corporation to supply electric light for public and private purposes, and authorising the Corporation to raise a quarter of a million sterling by means of debentures. The amalgamation of the sugar companies is the most important mercantile transaction for some years. One effect will be to largely increase the Victorian element in the Colonial Sugar Company’s proprietary. A mob is besieging tho Washington Courthouse, Ohio, in which a negro prisoner whom they desire to seize for the purpose of lynching is being tried. The military are defending the Courthouse. Already eight of the attacking party have been killed and 20 wounded. The Melbourne unemployed have formed committees representing the various suburbs, with the object of urging the local members to bring pressure on the Government in favour of the unemployed. Tho Judge, in summing up in the Grasmere (New South Wales) riot cases, said he was often surprised that free labourers did not arm themselves to resist outrages. Without encouraging the use of firearms, ho considered men were justified in using weapons if they had a reasonable idea that their lives were endangered. If the free men organised and armed themselves there would be fewer cowardly outrages perpetrated. The prisoners were convicted, and remanded for sentence. Advice has been received in Sydney that the German warship Moewe, reported last week to be considerably overdue from Zanzibar, is still on the East African station. A rich gold discovery has been made in the Nowstead District, Victoria. It is supposed to be the continuation of an old reef which many years ago yielded 20oz to the ton. The Transvaal' Government has announced its determination to manage the Pretoria and Delagoa Bay railway tariff independently of the Cape Colony. The Victorian Government has raised the price of 4 por cent, debentures to a premium of 3 per cent, in addition to the interest accrued from l3t July. No inscribed stock is at present available, but it is intended to ask Parliament to authorise a further issuo.

The Tasmanian revenue is still falling, and further retrenchment is unavoidable. If the exhibition does not improve the Customs revenue, it is intended to call Parliament together in February or March to consider the position. The special session meets on Tuesday, but the-only business is as to assessment, and it is expected Parliament will prorogue in two or three days. At the Conference of the Council of the Congregational Union in Melbourne, the suggestion of Dr Bevan that a protest be entered against French interference with the development of the Malagasy, 'was dropped on a Madagascar missionary expressing the opinion that such a protest might make the position of tho British missionaries in the island more unpleasant than it is now. ' . - ■ There are many signs of the collapse of Protection in the United,States., It is understood that Mr. Best, the. Victorian Minister,, for Tradq. and Customs, who is anxious to make some tangiblo progress with Federation, finds himself hampered by the strong Protectionist section in the Cabinet. Mrs Needle, for the murder by poison of Junckon, was exocnted lit Melbourne yesterday mornings No bitch occurred. The' ,unfortunate 1 woman maintained a firm hearing* to 1 tho end, and in reply- to the usual question said, I have nothing; to 1 say.”

A man named Brown, who states that he worked his passage over in the Rotomahana, has requested the Sydney Daily Telegraph to urgently warn people against flocking to New Zealand, giving deplorable accounts of destitution there, amounting in many parts, as he says, to absolute starvation. Pie describes the distress in Wellington as something awful, and says the only city which seems to get along is Dunedin. It is reported that the Republicans in the United States intend to steal the Democrats’ tariff, reform it, and adopt it as their policy. A British cruiser is examining Bird Island, one of the Sandwich Group, in order to ascertain whether it is suitable for a coaling station. •* ' - A message from Capetown states that the warships Philomel and Magpie sail for Delagoa Bay. M. Faure, Minister of Marine, states that Franco is about to build one ironclad, three cruisers, and ten torpedo boats. Plans are also being prepared for a predatory cruiser, to steam 23 knots, with great coal capacity. A New Zealander whose position enables him to speak with authority combats the statements about the distress made in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The Herald, referring to tho influx of passengers from New Zealand, considers it is pretty clear it has not much to do with Coolgardie or Wyalong, but is the result of propulsion from behind rather than allurement from before. Twelve sawmills in Tasmania, employing three hundred hands, are about to start to prepare wood blocks for shipment to London. The chief engineer of the Ross River Meat Works, near Townsville, has made a successful experiment in thawing meat. It is exposed to a strong blast of air at about freezing point, by which means it is restored to its original condition—perfect in colour and of excellent flavour. Five negroes, suspected of murdering a white official in South Carolina, were tracked by bloodhounds and lynched.