AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY CHAMPION TEAM. SYDNEY, August 31. By defeating Randwiek by ID points to lb, University won the Rugby Union premiership for the season. SYDXE Y’S A QUA RIUM. SYDNEY, August 10. It is hoped to have ready For the public in a few months’ time, at the Zoo. at Taronga Park, an aquarium unrivalled in any other part of the world for its collection and lor the beauty of its setting. It will cost about 1:20,000. The aquarium, it is believed, will house even one or two sharks. Tt will he Taronga’s wonderland, and is being constructed in the form ol a big cave, made by covering a gully with artificial rock formation, from the ceilings of which artificially-formed stalactites will hang. The entrance to the aquarium will he through a pmfusiou of palms and ferns. In Hie middle of the cave, and extending the whole distance of it. will he a chain of ponds or the big fish, while the smaller specimens of the finny tribe will be housed in tanks. Tinview of the tanks and of the big fish disporting themselves in the ponds "ill he from elevated platforms, which will ho an eminently safe place lor the public, if one or two sharks are to be included among the monsters of the deep. It is estimated that the aquarium will accommodate about • >OOO people at tile one time. The fact that the main salt water pool alone measures 80ft by HO ft will give some, idea of the elaborate lines along which the aquarium is to be built. MARINE COURT. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. The Marine Court of inquiry investigating the loss of the trawler Erolga, cabled on Aug. 1-ftli.. found the strandinn- was due to an error of judgment on the part of the master, Joseph Renton, in not availing himself of the facilities for checking the position by casting the lead. The Court censured the master. WRESTLING. MELBOURNE, Sept. 2. In the middle-weight championship of A'hstralia, ITughio Whitman, holder defeated Con Rentes. GOLF. PERTH, Sept, 2. The West Australian ojxm golf championship was won by E. Cassidy with a score of 310. R. Forbes and AY. Rees were the. runners op with 31b.