AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 January 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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The Black Murderer. Sydney, January 14. .Tacky Underwood was executed at Dtibbo to-day. Death was instantaneous. Australian Bowling Team. Sydney, January 15. Australasians bowling team to visit England is in course of formation. They leave about April. Cape Cable Contract. Copeland has signed the Cape Cab'e agreement in London. Gold Output Decreasing. The Now South Wale 3 gold yield for la3t year shows a falling off of 557,8000zg as compared with the previous year, Australian Postage System. Melbourne, January 15. Forrest approves of the idea that the States Post Office should be controlled by each state under instructions from tho Federal Post Office, rather than by direct administration.

He says that five years must elapse before there can be a postage Stamp current throughout Australia, but why this should be, ho fails to make clear. State Premiership. Svdney, January 15, Lyno retires shortly from the State Premiership. He will be succeeded by Lee Dugald Thompson, probably also taking the treasury. More Men. Applications for enrolment in next contingent for South Afric.T, arc coming in freely from the various States. Federal 'lreasureship. Melbourne, January 15. The Attorney General furnished Turner with the opinion that in accepting the Federal Treasureship, ho had accepted the position of profit under Crown. Turner, therefore resigns his seat in the State Assembly to-duy.