AUSTEALIAN CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 60, 12 March 1901, Page 4

AUSTEALIAN CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Sydney, March 11. Mr Spreckles, interviewed, said lie fully intended to enter boldly into the development of the Pacific trade. His huge liners needed cargo to make them profitable. On the occasion of tbe return of his two sons from the front, Mr J. H. Legg, of Gosford, was publicly presented with an autograph photo of the late Queen, forwarded by Her Majesty in November, in recognition of the sending of his sis sons to the war in South Africa. The Daily Telegraph’s Norfolk Island correspondent, writing in reference to the island being made a repeating station of the Pacific cable, says it will entirely change the existing conditions, and create a new era of prosperity. With the cable, it is hoped, will come a new confederacy of the South Pacific, with New Zealand as the beacon light. Then the island may hope to have some sort of government more suitable to its wants, as so far, at present, the suzerainty with New South Wales has proved a total failure. “The second hearing of the suit in which Arthur Coningham seeks a divorce from his wife on the grounds of adultery with the Rev. . Dr. O’Haran has opened, the petitioner conducting the case on his own behalf. He submitted a quantity of evidence similar to that given at the last trial. Melbourne, March 11. The Government are advised that the Pifth Contingent have arrived at Capetown all well. Perth, March 10. Two aborigines, Banjo and Rajah, have been arrested, and have confessed to the murder of Mr Durack. According to their confession, Banjo placed a rifle close to Durack’s head while he was sleeping, and shot him dead. Rajah undertook to kill the son, but only succeeded in wounding him. Their object was robbery.