CABLE FLASHES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3004, 16 December 1896, Page 2

CABLE FLASHES.

Work jii the Stpoktpp Colliery, Newcastle, ■was resumed yesterday. Special precautions were taken to prevent a roaprrenpo of the disaster. '

,An .important gold discovery has boon made at JunOfi, New Santo Wales. Stone from a reef varying from a few inehes in .thickness to 25ft has been treated at the local cyanide works, and assayed 350 z gold and over 330 z silver to the ton. The ore is ferruginous quarts impregnated with goasom. The deposits are very extensive. The Victorian wheat yield is proving .very variable, both in regard to the quality and quantity of the grain. By the fire at Penghana, .Tasmania, ICO houses, huts and tents wore destroyed. Over 250 people are homeless. The Government is sending relief. " . . At the ahnnal meeting of the Shipwreck Belief Society in Sydney, the medals awarded by the French Government to the officers and crow of the ship Aristides, for saving toe crow of the Terronouve, were presented bV the Goyornor. J ln the coarse of Ips sapech, referring io Federation, Lord Hampden sai’l that, if Australia was over to became a Power, it wan'd have to bo a maritime Power, Ho regretted that Queensland hid allowed provincial prejudices to overcome the national interest. There were some who eould not approach Federation, except from the point of view of gain or loss to provinces, or oven parishes. The difhopltles could be overcome, but only by recognition of the national spirit. The steamer Amur, wbioo arrived at Sydney yesterday, brings nows of two more murders of white men at the New Hebrides. _ A trader 1 named Clark was found shot in the bash at Tanna Isl *nd. The second murderwas at Amhrym. Mr Wamago, mate Of the cutter Ijspiegle, was going ashore to trade, • when the natives 'opened ij re and shot him dead. ' ‘ ‘ ' . i At Adelaide yesterday, Toms, the cyclist, rode 100 miles in 5 hours 7min 3seo ; au Anstralian'record. . The Saltan of Turkey has promised the Austrian Ambassador that he will extend to the whole of the Empire - the reforms to which ho has already pledged himself. There are 331,700 men employed on the Indian relief works.