TELEGRAPHIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4739, 2 September 1893, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

[Spscial to Pskss Abbocution.l NEW SOUTH WALES REVENUE. SYDNEY, Sept. 1. The revenue for the quarter ended yesterday shows a decrease of £60,000 aat compared with the corresponding Quarter of 1892. SEALING AND WHALING. The preliminary prospectus of a Company to engage in whaling and sealing in, the South Seas and Antarctic Ocean hat been issued. The details of the scheme are not yet available. RETRENCHMENT. : MELBOURNE, Sept. 1. Railway servants' salaries are to be reduced 20 per cent, and employees in the locomotive branch have been placed on three-quarter time.

[Per Peess Association.] NAPIER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. NAPIER, Sept. 1. The Napier Chamber of Commerce today elected Messrs C. B. Haddley, W. T. Irvine and H. A. Banner as the three accountants to form, with three members of the Chamber, the local Council of the Institute of Accountants. The three members of the Chamber elected were Messrs G. S. Wenley, N. Kettle and R« Pufletfc. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. MANAIA, Sept. 1. Francis Walter Sisley was to-day oo|nmitted for trial on the charge of cattle stealing. WELLINGTON, Sara. 1. Thomas George Fraser, who was arrested on the charge of stealing wearing apparel, the property of Mr CarnoroßS, M.H.R., has been committed for trial. A portion of the stolen property iB etlll mieaing. BURGLARY. The house of Andrew Young, Upper Willis street, was entered by burglars and a large-quantity of cutlery and table ware stolem COAL EXPORT. WESTPORT, Sept. 1. The coal export from Westport for August was 27,121 tons. Eighty vessels left the pott during the month, establishing a record for coal and shipping. -- : - ■'■■'- "-■ MEETING OF MINERS. DUNBDIN, Sept 1. At a public meeting of miners at Waipori, resolutions were carried urging the necessity of placing the mining industry on a more aeoure footing than at present; that Clause 218 of the Mining Act should be put in force; that the Miners' Association be urged to move in the matter of having all rivers and Btreams declared receptacles for mining ddbris. The meeting was held in consequence of the recent decision of Mr Justice Williams in the Jutland Flat Company, which minera think might affect the fossicker who pans off a dish of dirt.