AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 222, 15 November 1900, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[PBtt raws asbooiatiok.j 8 ■ 5 Beceived 14, 10.62 aja. '■ Sydjiey, November 14. , . Signer Carmini Morley, at one time . Ibe leading tener of the Simonsen Operatic Coy. and a well known teacher a ■of singing at Dunedin, died of injuries, ' •earned threngh falling from a train. Adelaide, November 14. Davidson's expedition arrived at Opdnadatta after exploring a large Jtfook of unknown country between Bar- ■ Urn and Tennant Greek. A great part ■of the area is a complete desert, where *hey suffered great privations, being c twelve days without water. They f located several areas of gold bearing i country. t Melbourne, November 14. ( Parliament is opened. The speech i ~ was uninteresting, it promised the reintroduction of woman's suffrage and old age pensions. Beceived 15,0.11 ajn. Sydney, November 14. Arrived: Westralia; also the war- 1 Bbip Archer, from England, to relieve '. the Mohawk. Sailed: Talune. ! The Government Statistician's pre- i limisary estimate of the colony's wheat < yield from one million five hundred and sixty-three thousand acrea under crop i is eighteen million bushels. The outlook : is at present promising. The Telegraph , .says the basis of the estimate, with . wheat held over, to commence the new campaign is fully 20 millions. Melboubne, November 14. Sailed: Hokoia. The Union Bank has shipped 100,000 sovereigns to South Africa, A tragedy has occurred at Beulah West; an eld farmer, Hugh Laverty, was found in bed with his bead battered in, having been killed while sleeping. An employee, Charles Gluck, gave himself up and confessed committing the murder. The motive was cot Ahclosed, Beceived 15, 1.5 a.m. . Mblboubne, November 14. in the Assemoiy, the motion of jio coMiildence, tabled by Mr. Turner, is, bei'ofe' discussed. (Beceived 15,1.5 a.m.} Sydney, November 14. In thO Assembly, the Old Age feDsi <ns BtU was fsad a second time on the voices. Mr. Ashton said it was stated i'iv a leading piiiianthropist in NewZe; 'knd tr.s.t oat or sae principal effects or the schema was to enrich publicans. Ir. Committee, Sir W. J. liyne proa used to ijisert a clause providing relief between the ages of 60 and 55, if k-j?c(1 ar,abb to earn » . W'K ,?■ \ I