AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10067, 8 February 1909, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Col'yufgiit.] (Per Press Association.) Received February 7. at 5.20 p.m. Melbourne, February- 7. Mrs Field, who gave her son and daughter an infusion of match heads and drank some herself, died to-day, as did also the boy. The second race for the Sayonara Cup resulted in an easy victory for the Sayonara. The weather was perfect, with a south-westerly breeze over a triangular course. The local boat secured a safe ]>osition. The Thelma was first over the line, but in a steady breeze the Sayonara quickly forged ahead, and rounded the first buoy eight minutes thirty-three seconds before the Thelma. On the long reach home the Thelma slightly improved her position, sailing very fast in a freshening breeze, but the Sayonara- finished nine minutes and fifty-one seconds before her. Sydney, February 7. Mr Hicfcey, the Xew Zealand coal miners' delegate, attended a special meeting of the Committee of Management of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation at Newcastle. He explained that his mission to Australia was to place the position of the coal miners of the Dominion before the mining communities here, and he hoped a- plan would be formulated to bring the Newcastle and. New Zealand coal miners' organisations closer together. The meeting decided that the executive officers of the Federation confer with Mr Hickey during the coming week with a view to arriving at a scheme for co-ordinate act-ion. Durnan is anxious for a race with Arnst. and offers to pay £2OO towards the expenses of the race. Melbourne, February 7. Sir James Mills, interviewed on the question of the All-Red route, said he was unable to throw any* .light on the route, but it was still being discussed. The Union Company was not building except for purely local purposes. No ship was on the stocks for the Vancouver route, and he added that the matter at present was too uncertain.