AUSTRALIAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5282, 12 June 1895, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

; [Spkciai. to Press Association.] j DEPARTMENTAL CHANGES. i BRIBBANE, June 11. : The Government purposes abolishing the office of Assistant Rail-way Commissioners, Mesarß R. J. Gray and A. Johnaon, and placing the railways under the sole control of Mr John Mathieson, Chief Commissioner. It is understood that Mr Gray will succeed Mr W. E. Parryokeden, Uuder-Secretary for the Colony, who becomea Commissioner of Police.

■ ACTION FOR DAMAGES. | SYDNEY, Junk 11. 1 Captain Close is instituting an action against Major-General Hutton, Commandant of the New South Wales forces, claiming .£SOOO damages. The matter prises out of the recent court-martial proceedings.

RAILWAY REVENUE. MELBOURNE, June 11. The Railway Commissioners expect their estimate of the jeat's revenue to be realised.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. The four brothers Abrahams, defendants in the Greener qua caße, have been committed for trial on a charge of conepiracy in. Belling illegally-marked guns. ' POSTAL RETRENCHMENT. MELBOURNE, Junk 12.

The postal retrenchment includes the closing of about forty post offioea, where the business is so small that they have been kept open at a lose. . COLONIAL BANK OP AUSTBALASIA.

j The. Age, commenting on the arrangej ment of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, 1 Btateß that a combination or amalgamation I of the Bank's interest and concessiona will I place other reconstructed institutions at a disadvantage, and they will have necessarily to adopt a Bimilar course. The paper considers that it would be far better to take combined action.

. A DROPPED 3ILL. In the Legislative Assembly the Government dropped the Civil Servants Retirement Bill. This step was taken after an amendment preventing pensions being granted to school teachers waß carried against the Government by 51 to 35. GOLDMINING.

PERTH, June 12. A rich development is reported in the Wealth of Nations mine, and wonderfully rich ston e has also been struck at the 60ft j level in the Carmine mine. The latter is : said to almost equal Londonderry speoi- ' mens. Reports from White Feather state that a magnificent reef is developing in the Hit-or-miea mine, where lOOOoz of j gold have- been dollied out. AN UNDERGROUND JEWELLER'S SHOP. There iB great excitement on the goldfields, as the Londonderry Company has again picked up the rich shoot of gold which suddenly gave oat. It was struck in twenty-three feet in the south main shaft, and driven into seven feet. It reaches from floor to roof of the drive, and glistens like . a jeweller's shop. Some of the gold is coarse, but the bulk is finer than that met with in the Golden Hole. The same enormous richness appears to extend in all directions. It is estimated that already 2000oz have been taken out of the new.' find. How big the shoot will prove it is impossible to say at present, but it is undoubtedly a continuation of the rich discovery first made. ESTIMATED DEFICIT. , ADELAIDE, June 12. In the Legislative Assembly, the Treasurer said he estimated the deficit for the year at .£60,000.