CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1706, 16 January 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

DISCOYISRY c)F A PLANT \ : . ;r " Sydney, Jan. 11. - ?; The most Complete coining plant ever discovered here has been unearthed at Waterloo. 5 lEor some 'time past a large quantity'\of spurious coins representing all values from a shilling to a sovereign- htive been jin circulation, and the counterfeit is of such excellent workmanship as almost to deceive an expert*. .«! »>: A man named jJirch, after a desperate struggle, was) arrested on a charge of being concerned! in ' affair. ACC^vENT. A. shocking aeeidentha^^edmThe-engino-room of; the -steamer Bulimba diu ing her voyage from 'Melbourne, iA young married-woman named Evans was being shown over the machinery m the engine-room when her dress caught in the bolts of the shaft coupling and she was instantaneously crushed to death.- .The; ovidence at the inquest disclosed the fact that the unfortunate woman persisted in seeing the machinery against.the l . wishes of those in Ihe ; engmo-room.' * 1 T

MILESca, LTD. j ; Christchurch, January 14; _,luforniationihas been recoivod that Miles and Co.,:jLimited,' have presented a petition for voluntary winding up. The business hitherto carried on by them in Canterbury will be carried on m liquidation, and the clients’ money that may be . received will bo placed to special trust account. #t is stated that the cause of the winding up' is deprein. the value of property anA in all parts of New Zealand, and lost hoavily over some of thorn.