AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2554, 22 November 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. 1 Perth, November 20. Coal has been discovered at Brwin, near the route of the Midland Railway. The estimated revenue for next year is £-138,642, and the expenditure £395,861. After making allowance for estimated deficit this ypar of £40,50), this gives a credit balance of £2281, Sydney, November 21. One hundred and sixty nine clergymen of various denominations have petitioned Parliament against the extension of the facilities for divorce. A large deposit of salt has been discovered at Ellalong, 120 miles north of Sydney. Melbourne, November 20. The Auckland yacht Akarana won the St. Kilda Club's gold medal. November 21. By a fire at Uphill, a small town near the South Australian border, damage to the extent of £12,000 was caused. The Intercolonial Temperance Convention has opened its sittings here. Sir W Pox arid other representatives from New Zealand are present. The Presbyterian Assembly has at leugrth agreed upon a basis of federation for the churches of the different colonies. They have invited prominent English and •'cottish divines, Lord Polenworth, the flon. W. H. Smith, M.P., and Sir G. Campbell, M.P,, to atteud the Jubilee celebration of the Church. An explosion occurred in a powder factory at Gob's Gully, which blew the end of the building ont. A man named M Urer was badly hurt, and lies in a critical condition. Adelaide, November 21. Two railway employees named Brown and Ryan, while travelling on a railway tricycle, were 'cut to pieces by a train near Gerowie.