LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 6, 2 October 1878, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

(Reuter’s Telegrams to Press Agency.) Sydney, September 30. The whole of the associated Newcastle coal masters have given notice of their intention to withdraw at the end of the year from the present agreement relating to the price of coal. It is generally believed that a reduction in price will follow. The latest Queensland trans-continental exploring party will shortly reach Port Darwin. They have found the country well fitted for a railway. The prospectors up the Mclvor report the country auriferous. The gold found is, however, unpayable, though there are suitable blocks for sugar growing. The Rev. Mr Macfarlane is lecturing on the products of New Guinea. A hurricane at Rome on Friday razed walls and fences and unroofed buildings. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Auckland, October 2. The Rotorua has arrived, bringing Sydney news to 25th September. The Wesleyans have held a meeting to consider the report of the Rev. Brown’s reprisals on natives for massacres in New Britain. A resolution was carried expressing sympathy with his difficult position, but regretting no other course open to him to secure the safety of himself and party. The Roman Catholics of Sydney are using great exertions to erect a cathedral. It is considered that it will be sufficiently advanced for use by an expenditure of £15,000. The reason assigned by the Marine Board for suspending the certificate of Captain Caity, of the Newcastle, was that although all precautions had been taken, he should not have gone into his cabin when so near port. The Rotorua brings Burton’s circus, and the following southern passengers :—Mrs Watt and four children, Mrs Baker, Captain Lawrence, Mrs Steward, Messrs Pole, Baker, Twentyman, and six in the steerage.