AUSTRALAIN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3582, 24 March 1886, Page 3

AUSTRALAIN CABLE.

(Pbb Blbotrio Telegraph — Cop yrioht. ) (ReUTER'B AOENbY.) (Received 1.15 p.m., March 23rd.) A NARROW ESCAPE. Sydney, March 23. A railway accident occurred yesterday on what is known as the little zigzag portion of the great "Western Railway, over the Blue Mowntains. Fortunately no lives were lost, the passengers escaping with some slight injuries and a severe shaking. GERMAN WARSHIPS. The German Squadron, under the command of Admiral Knot, has left for Auckland. WHOLESALE POISONING. Melbourne, March 23. News from Border Town, a small township on tho boundary of Victoria and South Australia, states that a honsehold of nine persons has been accidentally poisoned by arsenic. Two of the children are dead, and a woman and another child aro m a precarious condition. The other five persons have recovered from the effects of the poison. (Eeoeived 1.30 a.m., March 24th.) SHIPPING. Melbourne, March 23. Sailed, this afternoon — Wairarapa, s.s., for Bloff. MELBOURNE MARKETS. The Local Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, reports on the grain market as follows : — Shipping wheat is quieter but steady at 4s 3d to 4s 4d ; malting barley shows no improvement at 3s 6d to 4s 3d. New Zealand oats — feed sorts are steady but not active at 2s 9d to 3s ; milling ditto is m moderate enquiry at 3s Id to 3s 3d - y New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 3d to 2s 6d.