Australian News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1913, Page 3

Australian News.

• — ■ » . - — fur KLHCTIUO telkgrafh-cop height] [FBIt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Thi* Vr*. 10-10 «..m .' SHIPPING. SYDNEY, This Day. Arrived, 0 a.m., Marmora and Uiimaroa. HOT WEATHER. The weather is oppressively and steamy. A hailstorm at Cootamunura smashed hundreds of windows and did other damage. Hail lay two feet deep on the roads. A CRICKETER'S BENEFIT. Public subscriptions at the Victor Truinper benefit cricket match totalley £865. making total receipts of £2650. PROFESSIONAL SCULLERS. Paddon has issued a challenge to row Pearce on the Parramata river for £250 a-side and the title held by either man to go with tho stakes. The race is to be fixed before- the Poarco-Bnrry event is rowed, and within tii reasonable time after Peareo's return to Sydney. THE tiUOTT EXPEDITION. Professor J)avid, reverting to the statement that if Dimitri was allowed to make a iinal dash he might nave saved some of the Scott party, declared the public failed to realise what the conditions at Antarctica were. Garrard and Dimitrf had been inarching for a fortnight, and were exhausted; to have gone cm would have meant death. Everything possible had been done under the circumstances by all the members of the expedition. MELBOURNE, This Day. Speaking at the welcome to the Empire Trade Commissioners, ilr Rider Haggard said there was no fairer jewel in the Imperial Crown than that set in these seas. A groat mass of the population of ibe British teles knew little of Australia. Other pa lis of tho Empirewere thrust upon their notice, to the obscuration of Australia. He only wished the plethora of population in Great Britain could be brought to where there was a plethora of land ; that the landless man could be brought to the manlcss land. Lord Denman entertained the Commissioner*) at lunch. IS THIO WRONG BOAT. FREMAXTLF, This Day. The police made a clever capture. of seven Chinese stowaways on tho steamer Charon. The police boat was alongside, awaiting developments, when the stowaways wero lowered therein in the darkness— mistaking the police boat for their own.