AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 August 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

(Bf ÜBOTBIO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. {PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Australian Federation. Received, this day at 9 53 a.m. Sydney, This Day. A. B. Josko, a resident of Fiji for 23 years, informed the Telegraph that the desire of federation with Australia is pretty general. He considers federation with New Zealand out of all reasonable reckoning ; naturally Sydney is Fiji’s best trading port in the absence of an Alliance. Australia thinks the white residents ‘■houldha allowed to select eight unofficial members of the Legislative Body, who «re now elected by Downing street, and who eulogised O’Brien’s work, in a group. High Appointment. Monsignor Kelly, reotir of the Irish College at Borne, has been appointed coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney, with the right of succession. A Stormy Voyage, Received this day at 9 53 a m. Sydney August 2. The Mokoia ran into a cyclonic gale after leaving' Wellington, and had a stormy voyage all the way. Old Age Pensions. The first payment, under the Old Age Pensions, commenced yesterday. Cricket. Melbourne, August 2. In a letter from McLaren he hopes to include J. Ounn (Notts) bowler McFatay, to the Essex batsman. If Fry cannot come, he is confident the team is a representative one, though he does not think they are up to the Australians in bowling. Australian Parliament. Sydney, August 2. ;

Tha Assembly on an all night sitting on Lee’s Amendment, was negatived by sixty one against twenty eight. The Address-in-Beply was adopted on the voices.