NEW SOUTH WALES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1838, 11 May 1888, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydne?, May 10. The mutineers who arrived m chains by the barque Thunderbolt, from London yesterday, threatened the lives of the captain and officers after throwing a quantity of ship's stores and deck fittings overboard. ■ : The annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society gives the profits for the year at the amount assured being t£*3, 152,000. The report recommends that the sum of be carried to the reserve and the establishment of an officers provident fund, to which officers should contribute at the rate of 2% per cent bn their yearly salaries, the Society giving 3^25,000 as a nucleus to the fund. The Hon. Francis Abigail, Minister of Mines, has sent a cable message to M. Pasteur, asking the terms on which his representative would be permitted to instruct the authorities here as to the cultivation of the virus of the Cumberland disease. It is estimated if the virus is successful some 300,000 sheep which die annually from the disease could be saved. A woman named Peak, who is said to have been of unsound mind, threw herself m front of an approaching engine on the Southern line of railway to-day, and was literally cut to pieces, The apparent drooping cf the silver boom has caused an increased amount of interest m gold shares, and a boom m the stock is anticipated; A large number of forged £$ notes on the Australian Joint-Stock Bank are m circulation m the city. A man named McGregor has been arrested on a charge of forging and tittering them. The notes are marvels of penmanship. A youth named Borthwick, belonging to the Auckland vessel Jessie, was accidentally drowned m the harbor to-day.