AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 March 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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Rains. Sydney, March 15

Good rains are general throughout the colony with a south-east gale on the coast.

Federation, Commission.

The Now Zealand Federation Commissioners saw Mr Barton’s private secretary and arranged to confer with Mr Barton when ho returns from the country.

Federal Celebrations.

The Natal Premier will bo unable to attend the opening of the Federal Parliament but the Ministry will bo represented. Mr Frost, Minister without portfolio, represents Cape Colony. Another Ship’s Fire. Hobart, This Day. A fire occurred in the linen locker on the mail steamer Austral on the trip from Sydney. It is supposed to have been caused by a spark from the funnel. Nearly the whole of the ship’s linen, twelve thousand pieces, was destroyed, and the damage is estimated at about £SOO. Collision. Sydney, This Day. An examination of the Silver Cloud shows that the cut-water was carried away, the bow planking was burst, and at the water-way some seams were opened up. She is making a little water and discharging cargo prior to an overhaul. Explorers. Adelaide, This Day. Professor Baldwin Spencer and J. J. Gillen left on the Central Australian expedition. Disastrous Fire Grasby’s large grocery store was destroyed by fire, the damage being £IO,OOO. The insurances include £2.000 in the National of New Zealand. The building was also insured .in the Now Zealand Insurance Company. Royal Etiquette. Melbourne, This Day, Being against etiquette to stop the Royal yacht entering the harbor, a pilot will he sent from Melbourne to join the Ophir at Colombo,