Australian Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11635, 16 March 1901, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

United, Press Association— By Electric Telearranh.—Cooyri«rht. Received March 16, 1.6 am. Sydney, March 15. The New Zealand Federal Commissioners have arranged to confer with Mr Barton when he returns from the country. They expeot to spend about ten days in Sydney, collecting evidence. There is a probability of the Seamen's Union joining with the coal lumpers if the latter are locked out. The Natal Premier will be unable to attend the opening of the Federal Parliament, but the Ministry will be represented by Mr Frost. A Minister without a portfolio will represent Cape Colony. Good rains are general in the colony. A south-east gale is raging on the coast. Beceived March 16, 9.20 a.m. Sydney, March 16. An examination of the Silver Cloud shows that the cut water was carried away, the bow planking burst, and the waterway seams opened up. She is making a little water and is discharging cargo prior to an overhaul. Professor Warren, one of the experts appointed by the Coroner to inquire into the Sydenham disaster, is of opinion that the chief cause of the accident was fhe high rate at which the train>at trayejlfag, estimated at between 40 and $Q miles an hour. He condemned the derailed class of engine, which should not be allowed for the safety of the public to continue in the service in their present form, A gale, with heavy rain, has prevailed all night. Shipping is sheltering. The cable repairing steamer Recor 'er, which [eft to overhaul the Ne<v Zealand c*»ble, had to pit back through stress of weather, Adelaide, March 16. Professor Baldwin Spencer and J. F. Sillen have left on a Central Australian expedition. Grasby's large grocery store has been destroyed by fire, the damage being £10,000. Insurances include £2000 in the National of New Zealand. The building was also insured in the New Zealand Insurance Co. Received March 16, 9.30 a.m. Hobart, March 16. A tire occurred in the linen locker on the mail steamer Austral on the trip from Sydney. It is supposed it was caused by a spark from the funnel. Nearly the whole of the ship's linen, amounting to 12,000 pieces, was destroyed, thejdamage being about £600.