AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5162, 8 June 1891, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

(Pbr EziKctbic Teleojbaph— Copyright. (Phr Press Abhooiatiok. ) (Eeceivcd 11, a.m., June Gth.) A STEAMER MISSING. Sydney, June 0. One of the raisaing steamers has arrive •safely, the other, tho TaratamuDgt bound from Newcastle to Molbourni coal-laden, is now seven days out and it . feared she has foundered. Her office] 3nd crew number thirty. TPvIBAL QUARRELS. Intelligence received from tho Ne Hebrides states that the natives on Tunr aro fighting amoDg themselveo. In othi respects affairs at tho islands are quiet.

). MUTINOUS MILITIA, a Melbour :e, June 6. r, The Board of Enquiry which was si n up to investigate the circumstances coi >f nected with the mutiny of the 3rd reg it ment of Militia at Ballarat at the bogit ,y ning of May, report that they foun gro39 irregularities m connection wit the regiment, and that a. conspirac 5, existed among the men against Sargean Major Garland. The Board reooramen that the regiment be disbanded. k COLONIAL DEFENCES. „ Brisbane, June 6. a Sir Samuel Griffith has agreed to re i commend Parliament to contribute to fch . Naval Defence Fund. WEATHER WARNING. Mr Wragge, Government Meteorologist predicts a further spell of aqually weathe between New South Waleo and New Zea i land. ACCIDENT TO THE HAUROTO. Hobakt, June G. When the s.s. Hauroto, which left her yesterday for the Bluff, was about sixt; miles out, a feed pipe burst and the vesse ' returned to port to have repairs effected 1 A number of passengers transhipped to thi Kotokino, which wnß on the point 0 ' leaving for Dunedin when the Haurot< returned. The Sauroto will resume he: voyago to the Bluff to-day.