Wednesday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 30, 23 November 1883, Page 13

Wednesday.

It is reported from Greymouth that the mine manager of the Fiery Cross telegrap>B the striking of the reef in the main drive 2ft. thick, showing good gold. This is north of the block they are now working, and must have an important effect on the future of the mine. Eewi has expressed himself to the Native Minister as favourable to the construction of a trunk railway from Te Awamutu to "Wellington, via Taupo. He is quite willing on his part to see the land surveyed and passed through the Court, but is strongly opposed to the sale of any portion of it. He is willing to see it leased on reasonable terms, but not sold. John M'llrerny, when driving a disc-harrow for Mr. James Little, on the Allandale Estate, Canterbury, last Friday, was thrown from his seat, and found dead. The St. James' Gazette considers thati Lord Derby has made a distinct advance in his later replies, while the Globe fears that the shadow of a disentegration of the Empire lurks behind the idea of Australian federation. The Marquis Tseng states that 30,000 regular troops, with European officers, are within easy marching distance of the French frontier, The news is confirmed that the rebels have destroyed 500 Egyptian soldiers at Mokama port on the Red Pea. The British Consul has also been killed. In the course of a despatch to the Imperial Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Major Sir Evelyn Baring, British Diplomatic Agent and Consular-general in Egypt, states that a force of 3000 infantry, with six guns, will be sufficient as a garrison for Alexandria, and that the Egyptian Government have intimated their readiness to be answerable for the maintenance of order in the country at large, the organisation of the Native army having been completed by Sir Evelyn Wood, Commander-in-chief.