AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1717, 29 March 1888, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Sydney. March 26.

A buggy accident occurred yesterday owing in the horses running away. Three persons wore severely injured, two hopelessly.

A portion of the missing municipal documents have been recovered, A letter has been received from a married women, which does not give any name, hut offers to reveal certain unsuspected transactions, but states her life has been threatened shr.n'd she make any disclosure. The Mayor openly expresses dissatisfaction at the contemptuous conduct of the Government in appointing suspended city officers to important positions under the Metropolitan Sewage Board.

Silver stocks are steadily declining.

March 27,

The barque John Knox has put in at (his port, short of provisions, She is from Kaipara, and she reports meeting with a succession of heavy gales. The storms were so violent that the vessel was run far to the northward to escape their fury, thus much protracting the voyage.

A number of pugilists were summoned before the Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of creating a breach of the peace by participating in a glove fight. The cases were dismissed on the ground of insufficient evidence. Mr John Haynes, M.L.A. for Mu'lgee, has issued a writ against Mr James Fletcher, M.L.A, for Newcastle, claiming £4OOO damages for the assault committed upon him in the House of Assembly on the 21st inst.

Enormous numbers of mice are making their appearance in the Currabula district, and the devastation of crops is most serious. Since the passing of tbs Rabbit Act in 1883, the cost of the means taken to exterminate them has been la per acre, and each rabbit destroyed has cost The population of New South Wales is put down at 1,042,000.

Melbourne, March 27,

Splendid stone has been found in the Jackson Beef Company’s mine at Kimberley.

At the licensing poll at Geelong on Saturday, the local optionista were victorious.

Charles Encott, formerly employed in the office of the Lyttelton Times Com* pny at Christchurch as clerk, has been arrested on a charge of embezz’ing moneys belonging to that company, Messrs Gavin and Gibson, boot importers, intend to sue the Gov rnm m, claiming £IO,OOO damages, for iiju-ies su-tained in the Windsor Railway Accident.

The popnla'ion of Victoria is 1,086,110, Adelaide, March 26, Mr Grant, the New Zealand pastoralist, Ins arrived from Port Augusta overland from Albany. He bhd splendid weather daring the trip, and states that there is plenty of feed; and water to be obtained. Some of his horses were brought into town in excellent condition, He considers that the country over which he passed is good for pastoral purposes, but unfit for agriculture. Mr Grant had previously travelled overland from Derby to Perth. ihe Inspector of Mines reports there are apparently rich silver mines on the west coast. He recommends that a tramway from Strahurn- to Port Macquarrie should bo constructed at a cost of £IOOO per mile. March 27. Fffty-four applications have been received for the Assistant Railway Commissiouership of South Australia, Some of ihe applications are from New Zealand. Brisbane, March 27. The Louise Lament, which struck on a coral reef some time ago, has been towed off, apparently little damaged. The exports tor the year ending 31st of December, 1887, amount in value to £5,538,000. The report of the Stock Board shows that the disease which recently appeared among stock in different parts of the colony, is contagious and is due to vegetable parasites. The disease’ does no' affect the wbolesomeness of the flesh, but it causes the animals to shed their wool and hair. A remedy is being sought for (be disease, Albany, March 26, Arrived Cuzco, from Plymmh. New Zealand passengeis Messrs Stockbam, Ballantyne, Heat, and Taylor, and Miss Henderson. Cooktown, March 27. ihe Albatross has just arrived lure with three French escapes on hood. They were discovered and taken off an island io Torres Strait, where they had been two months.