AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 96, 17 October 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

COLLIERY TROUBLES. THE RECENT LIBEL ACTION. A JOCKEY SENTENCED to DEATH. THE RECONSTRUCTED BANKS. (Per Press Association.) Sydney, October 16. The closiugof pits at Newcastle is due to failing trade, and also to the Victorian Government largely cutting down orders for coal. The owners state that if the Coal Mine Regulation Bill passes in its present form it will necessitate the closing of more of the pits. It is expected the Lambtou and Burwood colliery will shortly close. A Sydney message states that the complete schedule filed in the bankrupt estate of William McLoan shows the liabilities to amount to .£200,000, and assets to i' 31,000. This Day. A commission is being appointed to euqmro into the working of the Civil Service. A proposal to appoint a select committeo to euquire into the military administration was defeated by a large majority. The Government opposed the motion. Melbourne, This D.iy. The jockey Cockroft has been sentenced to doath for the murder of his step-sister. The possibility of one or two reconstructed banks re-opening under a reconstruction scheme, for the purpose of reducing the rate of interest, is being quietly discussed. Mr Speight, plaintiff in the recent libel action against the Age, received costs on the counts on which Tie succeeds. The costs on either side are to be on the highest scale. Defendant has been ordered to pay shorthand writers' fees. Later. In the Supreme Court judgment was entered for Mr Syme with costs on the counts in which Mr Speight was unsuccessful. This is practically a verdict for the defendant.