AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 16 April 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Melbourne, April 15. ( Tn granting the Marconi Company an order to inspect the Commonwealth wireless stations, the -fudge made a stipulation that the report must bf kept secret till the case was brought before the Court. The company was .riven till to-day to accept, but refused upon the Judge, declining to vary the stipulation. , The Federal Government has abandoned the proposals mooted ■ somfc years ago, when Sir John Quick wav Postmaster-General, for linking up tlift Pacific Island wirelessly. The Commonwealth has paid the States 3 per cent, interest on the value of the transferred properties, but without prejudice to claims toi 3V per cent. „ Brisbane, April 10. Mrs. Maunders and three children were drowned at Indoorroopilly while picnicking. It is supposed that one of the children fell into the river. The mother attempted to rescue it, and the other children jumped to the mother's assistance. A fourth child escaped. Hobart, April 15. The barque Farsund has settled in the sand, and all hope of floating her has been .abandoned.