AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 January 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

“ Summer School.” Sydney, This day. The Summer school is holding a session at Bowral. Somewhat on the lines of the famous Obantaqua. Representatives from all parts of the Commonwealth and Now Zealand are present. For South Africa. Melbourne, This Day. The Government has cabled that a hundred young men have offered to join Tullibardinc’s Scotch Horse. The Government will take no responsibility in the matter beyond undertaking a medical examination. Admiral of the Fleet. Adelaide, This Day. Rear-Admiral Beaumont has arrived. His vice-Admiral’s promotion duo in two years will probably be tho length of his service at the Australian station. The Federal Cabinet. Hobart, This Day.

Lewis interviewed says, that if Sir Phillip Fysh is elected to the Federal Parliament, ho will have tho position of eight Minister in the Federal Cabinet, Domestic Worries, Ssdney, January 16. A woman, MacDonald Alexandria, poisoned a baby with phosphorous, and took the same compound herself, she then jumped from a balcony. The child is dead but tho woman is still living. Domestic worries was the cause. For South Africa. Fifteen hundred applications have been received for tho new contingent for the Cape. Captain Cox, who has just returned by the Orient, has offered his services. Tho Victorian force will consist of 504 officers and men. Colonel Price has again offered his services for South Africa. South Australian Contingent will comprise 240 officers and men.