AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

SIR E. BRADDON.

(Received January 17th, 10.6 a.m.)

HOBART, January 17,

Sir E. Braddon is very HI. OVERDUE STEAMER ARRIVES. SYDNEY, January 17. The steamer Whaagapa is now seven and a haif days out from Timaru. It is supposed her detention is due to heavy ga'es. {Received January 17th, 836 .p.m.) SYDNEY, January 17. The Whangape has arrived, " all well.' She wae detained by stormy weather in the Tasman Sea. 6IR F. SARGOOD'B FUNERAL. (Received January 18th, 5.17 p.m.) MELBOURNE, January 18. The late Sir Frederick Sargood was accorded a large funeral. The GovernorGeneral was represented, and tJiere was a largq attendance of State and Federal members. About two thousand members of military corps took part. High caste Indians held a service at their temple for the repose of the soul of Sir Frederick Sargood, the ceremony being similar to that 'held at the time of the death of the Quen by t<o.9 Indian troops when in Melbourne. [All the warehouses in New Zealand belonging to Messrs Sargood, Son and Ewen. were closed on Saturday, oe a mark of iespect to the late Sir Frederick Sargood.] CARDINAL -aORAN AND THE MIB--BIONARIfcS. (Received January 19th, 1.12 a.m.) . SYDNEY, January 18. Cardinal Moran, in a speech at the opening of a seminary atWaverley, traversed the critieieme of his recent utterances with reference to the fighting in Samoa. He eaid he bad repeatedly laid the blame of the disgraceful and disastrous struggle in Samoa at the door of the Protestant missionary agents, and he was convinced that on their shoulders the main share of the responsibility must ultimately rest. He did not, however, desire to exempt from blame the other officials engaged in the shameful proceedings.