NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2393, 7 September 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY BLBOIB'.O TRLEUUAPH—COVYRIGHT)

IIKUTER'a TELEBIUMB,

Melbourne, August 3h Mr Gillies has taken over the portfolia of Minister for Mines front Mr Dow, owing to objections raised against the administration of mines and landfi being in tho hands of the same Minister,

The steamer Salter, the first boat of the North German Lloyd's new subsidised line to A ustralia, has urrived, She brings relief crews to the German men-of-war on the Paoihc station,

The state of the Melbourne Hospital continues to be the subject of general discussion. Dr Binney will move in the Legislative Council to day for a commission ot inquiry into the matter. A number of the members of the South Australian Chiiuclier of Manufacturers, now visiting Melbourne, are being shown the principal industrial works in Victoria.

Negotiations for the purchase of the Telephone Exchange Company's business by Government are still going on, but aro delayed by tho illness of Mr Byron Moore, managing director of the company.

Four cases of death by drowning from tho fit.' Kilda Pier have occured within the last two months, and sus picions of foul play are entertained in some quarters. The latest victim was Joseph Beaumont, a financier, who went out on Sunday morning with the intention of visiting the baths, His body was found in the forenoon with an abration on the head.

Mr Wybert Reeve leaves by the a. a, Tarawera for New Zealand with a specially selected company, among them being a gentleman well-known in amateur dramatic circles in Wellington,

Hobart, Augvgt 31, The discoveries of gold at Mount Lyell, on the north-west coast, have revived interest in that district, and there is a small rush, but prospecting is most difficult and the.cast of living vory high, owing to the expenses of the carriage of supplies.