AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8754, 16 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Sydney, April 14. Speaking at the University commemoration, Lord Carrington touched on federation, referring to Lord Wolseley's remark " that he looked forward to the time when Heaven would send statesmen wise enough to federate all lands acknowledging Queen Victoria as sovereign," said, with all respect to Lord Wolseley, he thought the colonies better as they were. He asked was not Australia already overdone with good meaning people, whose fads, theories, and nostrums were more likely to break us all up. Sydney, April 15. In consequence of the embankments which have been thrown, up around Bourke, the town resembles a fortified place. Electric lighting plant has been sent up from Sydney, to enable the men engaged on the earthwork to labor night and day. Bodies of navvies are being hastily despatched to the assistance of the residents. An immense body of water is reported to be coining down the Grulgoa, a few miles above Bourke, washing away all the homesteads on its Banks. It is feared when this flood reaches the town it will be doomed. The water surrounds Bourke for 20 miles in every direction. Sailed : Hauroto, for Wellington. A scam of coal six feet thick has been discovered at Liverpool, 22 miles south of Sydney. The seam is 2500 feet down, and the discovery proves beyond a doubt that the coal seams are not thinning out towards Sydney to such an I extent as commonly believed; in fact, it is matter for consideration whether coal will not in future be worked under the city of Sydney at a not much greater depth than the Liverpool find. Mr. T. W. E. David, a geological surveyor, and one of the highest authorities on the coal measures in this colony, has determined that the western and southern coal seams, hitherto thought to be distinct, are one and tlie same, and only interrupted by intrusive rocks. Lord Carrington has started for Bourke, the town threatened by the flood.