AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 5802, 25 November 1893, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (pef. cmted press association.) Received November 25, at 11 30 a.m. Sypney, November 25. Arrived—Wenoiia, from Auckland. The Port Jackson Steam Coal Company has applied t<> the .Mines Department for authority to mine on reserves at South Head, and about eight thousand acres of ocean bed. The scheme projected provides f>r putting down a collier}* at Watson's Bay to work coal shown to exist by the Cremome bore. Melkocrse, November 25. Arrived—Acacia, from Tairua. During a heavy gale a seaman named Alexander M "Donald was washed overboard and drowned. Green, of Victoria, performed the unique feat of winning three championships at the tennis tournament. Mons Bourough, of Billarat, won the Queen's prize at the Rifle Association meeting with a score of 272. Vernon, of New South Wales was second with 270. Premier Paterson inclines to the opinion that the Chief Commissioner of Railways should he selected from the leading traffic managers in America. Mr Drew, a member of the well-known finn of Macrcady, Drew, and Co., of Melbourne, who is charged with being concerned in the embezzlement of LIO.OOO has been remanded until January bail being allowed. An application for the discharge of Drew, on the ground that another partner, Macrcady, had been discharged l>y the London Magistrates, was refused.

Hoi; art, November 25. Sailed—Passa, for Lyttelton ; Kenilworth, for Auckland. Newcastle, November 25. Sailed Grecian Bend, for Timaru ; Kate Tathain, for Napier.