AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8090, 7 January 1903, Page 2

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' [Bx Electric Telegraph.— ConrnionT.j Pkr Press Association. Received January 7, at 8.46 a.m. Sydney, January 7. A meeting appointed a Committee to inquire into the Rev. Tremayne Dunstans While many places are still suffering from great heat snow fell yesterday at Kiandra. It is understood that, dullness in trade and Federal enactments in regard to .oversea shipping are the chief causes of the proposed change in the route of the French line. The agents state that they have no official information in the matter, and the change is unlikely to be made for some time. Perth, January 7. A series of magnificent caves have been discovered at Waimeroo, on the coast of the Indian Ocean.

Received January 7, at 9.33 a.m. Brisbane, January 7. Shillito's foundry at Ipswich was partially destroyed by fire. It was insured for £2OOO in the National of New Zealand. Perth, January 7.

Two men pegged out ground in the centre of the Southern Cross township. After working some time a three feet reef, carrying an ounce to the ton, was struck. The patch is reported equal-to the sensational strike at the Londonderry mine in the early days on the field. The specimens are fully haif gold. Melbourne, January 7.

At the inquiry into the wreck of the Jnverlochy the mate attributed the catastrophe to the current carrying the ship too close in. The vessel then missed stays. Heron, tended that the white light_was visible up to two miles beyond the distance fixed _:n the sailing directions. A well-known ship ping master supported this and declared he had seen the white Tight a, mile to a mile and a half outside the sector limit of three miles.

Received January 7, at 9.54 a.m. Newcastle, January' 7, Arrived—Wanaka, from Auckland. Sailed—Margarita, for Auckland..