AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4927, 26 August 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Pita Elkotbio Teleoraph— Ooj-tkhimt.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 11.50 a.m., Angnst 25tb.) WRECK OF A BARQUE. Brisbane, August 25, The Norwegian barque Joseph Toldestrum, from Sydney to Spain, has been wrecked m Endeavour strait. The crew were saved. STOCK TAX. Hobabt, August 25. The Assembly by a majority of ten resolved to reimpoao the stuck tax. The amount is 30s per head on cattle aud Is Gd per head on sheep. The tax comes into operation on Ist January next. SPORTING. Melbourne, August 25. The Victoria Club Handicap was won by Precedence. RICH GOLD FIND. After fifteen years' work a miner has struck what is supposed to be a continuation of the Queen's Birthday and O'Connor line of reef near Malmeabury. The crushing gave ten ounces to the ton, and the stone is becoming richer as the depth increases, THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. Sydnky, August 25. The Sydney Morning Herald m tha course of a leading article says that the cessation of the San Francisco Mail Service will no doubt evoke a feeling of regret m not a few of the Australian colonies, not bo much on account of its postal advantages as for the sake of the relations which it helped to establish between the great republic and these advancing communities. Failingaline from San Francisco one from Vancouver is sure to be established shortly, and if the United States do not wish to sco their influence eclipsed, they must display m the future a generosity which wili present a striking contrast with the parsimony of the past. (Boceived 8 p.m., An»nsfc 25th.) AQUATICS. There is very little likelihood of a race being arranged between Kemp and McLean. Tha former's party say that if McLean is anxious fur a race they are willing to back Stanbury from £200 a sido upwards. OBITUARY. Mrs Heron (moot da plume, " Australie ") one of Australia's best known writers.