AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 August 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

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Quarantining Compensation.

Sydney, August 8. Claims totalling over £34,000 have baen made in connection with quarantining operations during the late plague outbreak. Enlistment for South Africa. The Premier has promised to stop the further enlistment of men for South Africa, now proceeding in Sydney without his knowledge. He considered the State had gone u far as was necessary in sending troops.

The Polo Balcony Accident.

By the fall of the balcony during the presentation of the Polo Carnival prizes at Qairindi, twenty, including seven ladies, were badly injured. Several had broken legs, and many others received slight injuries. Tasmanian Revenue. Hobart, August 9. In the Assembly the Treasurer's financial statement showed the revenue for tho past year to have boon £1,055,000,- and expenditure £924,000. He estimated the present year will close with a deficiency, and that the State will loose a round hundred thousand by joining the Federation, even under the most favourable circumstances. The Germans in New Guinea. BsisBANB, August 8. Information has been received that the German warship Cormoran was some time ago despatched to St Mathias Island, in the Bismarck Archipelago, to punish the natives for their massacre of Herr Meneke and other members of the German scientific party in April last, was successfully carried out.

» The mission had a pitched battle with • the natives, eighty, of whom were killed, ; 17 captured and taken to German New - Guinea. French Barque stranded. 1 Noumea news states that the new ' French barque Notre Dame Delayarde, from Havre to Tochio in ballast, was stranded on the main reef and will probably become a total wreck. The crew were saved. A Nasty Accident. Sydney, August. 8. At the presentation of the polo carnival prizes at Quirindi to night, 150 leading ladies and gentleman of the district gathered at the Imperial Hotel. The balcony collapsed and fell on the crowd gathered below and a terrible panic ensued. Many were seriously injured and so far as is known no one was killed.

The details are meagre. Political Hatters. Sydney, This Day. The Womens' Franchise and the Industrial and Arbitration Bill have been introduced in the assembly. The latter is almost a similar Bill to that introduced last session with an important addition in the proposed establishment of boards of reference. The Legislative Council passed the Supply Bill. Italian Warship. I Adelaide, This Day. Arrived—ltalian cruiser Puglia en route for China. She visits the varions colonies, including New Zealand. Returned Troopers. Melbourne, This Day. The Moravia _ brought a number of returned troops, including thirteen New Zealanders,. Cable to New Guinea. Audley Coote, acting on behalf of a German company, applied to the Federal Postmaster for permission to lay a cable from German New Guinea to Queensland. No details given, but it is understood that it is hoped to have a landing place in British New Guinea.