AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• / By Telegraph.— Prest Association.— Copyright. ARREST AFTER NINE YEARS. SYDNEY, 13th April. The police have arrested William. Hall, an escapee from custody nine yeaa's ago while serving a sentence for burglary. He had been in refuge in New Zealand, and was for part of the -time in gaol. PENNY POST. SYDNEY, 13th April. The postal authorities are preparing for increased business with the inauguration of the penny post on Ist May. A DASTARDLY ACT. SYDNEY, 13th April. A serious attempt was made to derail a train ab Broken Hill. A heavy log was placed on the line, but beyond ai severe jolting no damage was done. FEDERAL NOTES. MELBOURNE, 13th April. It is estimated that when the issue of Federal bank notes ceases on Isb July, there will be sufficient paper money to meat demands to the extent of £11,000,000. TWELVE-POUND NUGGET. BRISBANE, 13th April. A twelve-pound nugget has been fdund at Ebagoolah, in North Queensland. It yielded gold valued at £220. THE HOLIDAYS IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, 13th April. There are record crowds in the city and on the trains and trams. There has been an unequalled demand on the telephone exchange, there being ninety thousand calls yesterday, which is easily a record. 14th April. The weather was fine to-day (Good Friday), and there was the usual semireligious observance of the day. POTATOES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. _ . SYDNEY, 14tE April. The opinion is expressed that much of the reported Irish blight in potatoes is really water rot. AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS AND WAR. PERTH, 13th April. Mr. Fisher, the Commonwealth Prime Minister, addressing a farewell meeting, prior to his departure for London to attend the Coronation, said the Government had decided that the trans-Con-tinental railway would be one of the first measures to be- dealt with next session. He hoped that as a result of the Imperial Conference the people would be brought to see thai) it was wrong to spend money on ships for the destruction of humanity. TRAM-CARS COLLIDE. SYDNEY, 13t& April. An. empty ' tram-car collided with a laden car at Randwick. Seven persons were slightly injured. WHITTY, THE CRICKETER, ' SYDNEY, 13th April. Whitty, the cricketer, who was operated on for appendicitis, is recovering. RUGBY LEAGUE FIXTURES. SYDNEY, 13th April. The Rugby League fixtures include matches between New South Wales and New Zealand on 22nd and 24tE June, and 15th July ; New Zealand versus the Northern Branches of the League, at Maatland on 28th June, and ati Newcastle on 12th July. INTER-STATE BOWLING. SYDNEY, 14th April. .New South Wales defeated Victoria at bowls by 99 to 81. Queensland defeated New South Wales by 95 to 92. (Received April 15, 10 a.mj THE YONGALA. BRISBANE, This Day. The search for the THlssing steamer Yongala has been abandoned.