AUSTRALIAN NEWS
COUNTRY.-PRESS DEPUTATION. : V (Australian- Pr*» Awwiation),. (Received this day at 9.25-a.m.) v SYDNEY, October 36. ; . Delegates of the • New South Wale's Country Press waited on Premier Bavin and requested -an amendment to the law relating- to defamation, claiming the practice liad : grown up during eiections for the issue bf ‘" frivolous ” writs against newspapers ostensibly with the object of stifling criticism of candidates,; the writs being withdrawn ns soon ns the felecfions were' over.
'■ v Mr Bavin replied‘the matter Vas of immense public importance and he promised to obtain the best legal advice whether an amendment, such as desired, could be made without restricting the rights of persons desiring to use the court process legitimately.
, VICTORIAN POLITICS. DISSOLUTION REQUESTED. • MELBOURNE, Oct. 24. Sir William M’Pherson has request ed’the Lieut.’Governor, Sir Wm. Irvine, i! to grant a dissolution. I- ■; NEW POTATOES. “ • < SYDNEY', October ?•. The new potatoes dropped £6 a’ton to £24 and further substantial reductions are expected. . RECAPTURED. , ... SYDNEY, .October. 26.
Henry Wratten, the prisoner who escaped from Mt. Mitchell prison or rap was recaptured. He was found in li.ily country, thirty miles from the prison.
SYDNEY STORM
(Received this dav at It a.m.l SYDNEY, October 26
- During a violent storm over Sydney and suburbs a fireball passed through a house at Woolwich and burst with a terrific explosion after striking a v.\ee across the road. The tree was shattered and the fence wrecked, • Branches of the tree were thrown several hundred yards, .; Lightning struck and .set fire t) a house at Ajuburn and a woman at Newcastle received a severe electric shuck from a clothes line which was struck by lightning. Meteorologists defined the fire ball as a slow-moving ball of fire which finally exploded. It consisted of incandescent rarefied air and gas usually about the size of a football. In most cases it travels a few inches above the ground and quite often passes through houses.
FIRE DAMAGE ESTIMATE. * SYDNEY, Oct. 26. The fire which destroyed Mclntyre’s flour mill at Ooonabarabran caused £l3 000 damage. The town had no water supply available.
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