AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 131, 29 November 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE DRY WEATHER. MUTILATED BY A SHARK, SERIOUS BUSH FIRES. (PRB FBESB ASSOCIATION! Sydnkt, This Day. Rear Admiral Bowden«Sraith denies that the cruiser Kooinba is structurably defective or is leaking. A small leak, he says, was discovered in the condenser, but was not of a serious character. The Hon. W. P. Reeves is investigating the work of the Labor Bureau and Lunacy Department. Lockwood, the English cricketer, had a narrow encapo of being drowned while 1 athing in Middle Harlour. Owing to the low prices and the continued dry weather large areas of wheat havt- been cut off for hay. A man named Howieon, while bathing on the beach at Newcastle, had one of his arms torn off, and was otherwise mutilated by a shark. His brother only rescued him with great difficulty. Large bush fires havo swept over the Eureka mine, near Moruya. The shafting timbers caught fire, and two miners named Callendar aud Galbraith perished from suffocation. Bmsbanr, November 28. Serious bush fires havo destroyed ten miles of the telegraph lino, interrupting communication with Western Australia. It is expected it will be two or three days the line is repaired. Bmshane, November 28. The Treasurer has tabled proposals for a two million loan to meet debentures and Treasury; bills maturing, and to make good the deficit