LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4961, 26 February 1895, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• (Received February 2C, 11.45 a.m.) t Sydney, February 26. [ The Stock Exchange continues » j very buoyant and larger business was t done yesterday in investment stocks t than on any day during the last two . years. Melbourne, February 26. 1 _ An hairdresser named Cronin has invented a bullet-proof coat, which he claims to bo superior to anything J yet discovered. A bullet from a t Martini-Hcnry failed to penetrate or s even to break the surface at two i hundred yards. The cuirass is said > to be as light as an ordinary militaaft \ jacket. mf Perth, February 26. The Coolgardie representative cjfy i Lord Findlay's syndicate, has visited '' the recent discovery, alleged to be a mountain of gold, at Mount Catherine, but found that it did not come up to representations, and ho could not recommend the purchase.' The prospectors charged with murdering the natives, have been discharged, the only evidence being that of the informer Robertson, who had a dispute over tho ownership of the claim. No corroboration of his statement was forthcoming, Hobaht, February 26. Tho Board of Inquiry into' the accident to tho Pukaki, found that the casualty was caused through the vessel taking ground on tho rocks v I adjoining the wharf, while having I too much way on.