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NEW SOUTH WALES.
Svdnev. December 10.
A Conference has taken place between the
Hon. Mr. Trickett, of New South Wales, the
Eon. Graham Berry, of Victoria, and Mr.
Warren, SuDerintendent of the Cable Com
pany, to consider the question of a reduction
of the cable charges between Australia and
London.
Earl Rosebery's eloquence is the general
theme of remark to-day.
The Hon. G. P. Reid, Minister of Public
Instruction, resumed duty this morning after
his recent severe illness.
A Portugese miner named Brown has
found a lead of coarse gold at a depth of 10
feet, which gave one and a half pennyweights
to the dish.
At a Coroner's inquest this morning Coonan
confessed to the shooting of the barmaid at
Ollife's Hotel accidentally. He was com
mitted on a charge of manslaughter
Alderman Hardie was to-day elected Mayor
of Sydney for the ensuing municipal year.
The committee appointed to agitate for
University evening lectures have obtained a
favourable decision from the Senate so far as
Arts is concerned. The Vice-Chancellor
intimated to the Minister of Public Instruc
tion that the effect of the agitation will be
an attempt to begin the lectures next March.
At the Central Police Court to-day a
Frenchman named Jules Dasmit waa com
mitted for trial for breaking into the premises
of Mr. John T.Seldon, ironmonger, of Pitt
street.
The Queensland Shipping Company's new
steamship Maranoa arrived from London
to-day. She will be employed in the trade
between Cooktown, Brisbane, and Sydney.
The Metropolitan Quarter Sessions opened
to-day, when James Herbert, an old offender,
waa sentenced to seven years' penal servitude
for uttering a forged Bank-note.
At a meeting of the Calcutta Exhibition
Commission to-day, a letter was read from
Mr. F. Franklin, the Executive Commissioner
for the colony, stating that arrangements
made by the P. & O. Company for the trans
shipment and stoiage of exhibits were very
defective.
The schooner Garfield, whilst crossing the
Manning River bar on Sunday morning,
grounded on the north bank, and is expected
to become a total wreck; -All hands were
saved.
A serious accident occurred at the Great
Victoria Mine, Adelong, to-day. A tribntor
named Charles Shintlerwas tamping a charge
of gunpowder with an iron rod when it ex
ploded, shattering his right hand terribly.
His left hand was blown away altogether, and
his face was injured.
At Cootamundra the first of this season's
wheat has been harvested, resulting in a yield
of thirteen bushels per acre. Harvesting
operations are' in full ewing in several
districts.
The bodies of the two young men drowned
through being knocked overboard from the
ketch Constantine, in the Hunter River, have
been found. Their names were Archibald
Thompson and Charles Hein, and they are
said to be two midshipmen who deserted
from the barque Malacca some few weeko
ago. It is understood that they were very
respectably connected in England.
At the meeting of the Shipmasters' Asso
ciation this evening it was resolved to peti
tion the Marine Board to shade the electric
light at the North Head lighthouse, bo as to
exclude the rays from the harbour. The light,
when directed up the harbour, as at present,
placesa serious impediments in the way of the
safe navigation of the harbour at night-time,
as its brilliancy, being only experienced at
intervals, causes darkness to affect the eyes
of mariners, from which they cannot recover
for some little time afterwards.
A dinner was given by the Speaker of the
Assembly to-night at the Parliament House,
n honour of the visit of Earl Rosebery and
the Australian delt gates. The Speaker occu
pied the chair, having on his right the
Governor, and on his left the Earl of Rose
bery. There was a large and brilliant com
pany present, including Messrs. Graham
Berry, of Victoria, and Whitaker, of New
Zealand.
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