AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 March 1901, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

[by electric telegraph—copyright] [per press association.] Death on the Monowai. Hobart, March 21. Arthur Hay Sommerville, a passenger from New Zealand by the Monowai, died on the voyage of acute peritonitis caused by excessive vomiting.

A Great Romancer. Sydney, March 24. Do Rougemont related a story of life and adventures in Northern Australia to a large audience. He had a good hearing beyond a running fire of chaff. Radical Legislation. Sydney, March 24. Speaking at the Labor Day Demonstration Mr O'Sullivan t Minister for Works) said that Government was determined to bring forward a programme of liberal measures of a social character which would make even the Premier of New Zealand gallop to keep up with. New Zealand and Federation. Sydney, March 24. The Sunday Times says that the lack of Australian interest in tho doings of the New Zealand Federal Commission should convince the people of New Zealand that the countries are too far apart to be bound together by any other tics save those of commercial reciprocity and general friendship. Let New Zealand go on its own path, possessing our best wishes, and it may rest assured that there are many in this continent who sympathise with her noble aspirations and hope for the complete fulfilment of her destiny. Obituary. Melboubnb, March 24. E. T. Barnard, formerly handicapper of the Victorian Racing and Victorian Amateur Clubs.