AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7663, 23 June 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

* Prests Association— Eleotrio Telegraph -Oopjtlght ! SYDNEY, June 22. ' Many telegraph poles have been smashed by the weight of snow and force of the wind. Miles of line are down or buried both south and west. The western circuits are blocked beyond Lawson's. The fall was so heavy in \ the Blue Mountains that) traffic* was much interrupted. Deep drifts collected in tho ' cuttings, and had to be removed to allow ' the trains to proceed. The weather is still wild, and very high ' seas are coming in from the Tasman sea. As , no previous warning was received it is supt posed that the depression arose seaward. A peculiarity is that the wind is strong | westerly in Sydney but a tumultuous sea is , rolling in from the south-east. Floods in the . Nambucca river permitted the long detained ' vessels to escape to sea. i ADELAIDE, June 22. The Government Geologist, reporting on , auriferous deposits in Western Australia, i says there are very large deposits on the , western border of South Australia similar to , the Western Australia formation, and proseating conditions essential to the occurrence of gold. There is every reason to believe that prospecting would reveal gold over a vast extent of country." PERTH, June 23. Sir J. Forrest, Premier, replying to a deputation said that the Government would be represented at the Federation Conference. He declined to introduce legislation to restrict the influx of Chinese, as the present legislation on the subject was more stringent than in any other colony.