AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2863, 18 November 1890, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(ISY KLKCTBIt! TKLEGKAIMI.— COPYRIGHT ) Syhnky, November 11. SoMK anxiety is felt by the miners thiit tho proposed reduction in tho selliu- prion of co;il will cause a proporlioiNiU- mluetion in their wages. Gras.-.hi4\|■■-!■« aro causing great do structiun out West, and tho railway •was stormed for several hours through Hie inserts ou tbe line. Thn pest u moving down to Murruinbidgee in etarnls. Finn rains have fallen throughout iho colony, and an unusually good season is predicted. The miiize crop in the North will be very heavy, but wheat in soims parts is largely uffectfd with rust. November lu. Tho revenue of the railways during the strike fell £30,000 short of the estimate, und the expenditure rose i!'J0.000, in consequence of tho clirhculty of providing fuel. Admiral Lord Charles Scott explains that the question of precedence raised by him is in no sense u, personal one. It was aioiply brought forward in obedience to the Uueeu's regulations, which state that Governors out of their colonies nu>k after the Naval Couimander-in-Chief. Tho certificate of Captain Nelson, of the stennier Alberta, has been suspended for six months. A saloon pusscnger by the To Kapo from Duncdin named Arthur was missed tho day before the steamer arrived at Wellington. The London dockers stale that they hnvo cabled £14,000 to Australia, but the Defence Comiuitteo huve only received £3,100 Brisbane, November t . The Government is taking steps to establish a weather observing station at Noumea, whiah will be the moet complete in the Southern Hemisphere. PERTH (W.A.). November 16. The warship Penguin has discovered a magnetic shoal near Cossack, tho principal port of the northern district, lying on tho banks of a tidal creek some eight miles north of Roeburne. The shoal is said to bo right in the track of vessels, and marvellously deflected compasses from .50 deprees right to 23 degrees left. The Government of Western Australia has refused to share the subsidy for the reduction of cubic Adelaide, November 15. A severe storm passed over the Gulf of St. Vincent yesterday. Six ketches were wrecked, and the French baique Notre Dame driven ashore. She is expected to get off. Melbourne, November 14. James Mirama has been found guilty on a chargo of falsification of the booka of the Premier Permanent Building Association. William Dougherty (the secretary) and two others were acquittod on this charge. Mirams was admitted to bail pending his trial for conspiracy. j<3. At a mass meeting of Socialists aud unemployed, rosolutious denouncing General Booth's sohcuio of colonial farms weru carried, aud the Government are to bo requested to prevent t'fVuct Mug given to the scheme.