NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Issue 3302, 20 January 1879, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The total receipts in connection with the Seamen's Union on. account of the strike fund amount to nearly; £3,000, and the disbursements .to £2,100, leaving a credit balance of £850. _Tie Queensland f und re.ceipts'anibnnt; to £700, and the expenditure to £300, leaving a balance of £400. : The; Government geologist has published an exhaustive report on the Barrington diggings, in which he ; endor3esthe opinion as to the richnessof the reefs, of which at present there are 20 discovered. . ; At the first meeting of -the Exhibition Committee, it Avas statedthat the Go vernment had approved of the plan of a building covering seven and a half acres. A child, named Palmer^ was scalded to death through falling into a cauldron of boiling vvater. ..."'"' information reached Wagga that a shepherd has been found- near Genmaih; station, betAveeri Wagga arid Narandera^ with his head battered in arid his pockets- cut away. Private letters received in Sydney state that, the Duke' of ..Buckingham is desirous of obtaining the Governorship of Ncav South Wales;, ; Sir James Fergussbn and Sir, Henry -'Ord are also spoken of. Mr F. R. Hume, of Frankfield; one of the largest squatters in the colony , died somewhat suddenly on the Ilth inst'.