AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 225, 17 November 1900, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

ru nui association. (BtceiTtd 16,10.4S p.m.) Sidwy, November 16. I Hie body of an eld man named Kirk, ma found is a waterhole, near Geelong, vwitk *rope tied round his body tightly pinning iris arms, There were also abrasions on the head. Medical evidence vu to the effect that it was impossible for the deceased to fix the rope himself. Kirfe mate hu been arrested on Bupicion. Mrs. Baxter, with a tax months' infant, wandered from her home at Nowra. The woman's body was found on the seashore, and it is supposed she drowned herself and the child in a fie of dementia. ! Melboubne, November 16. An inmate of the Yarra Bend Asylum awed Robertson, stealing behind another instate named Shanks, battered him te death with a block of wood. When charged at the Court, he said ** Almighty God told one te kill," and fee oflered to kill all the warders and all present in the Oourt. (Received 17, 0.20 a.m.) r Sydhkt, November 16. * . The Federal Organising Committee hare recommended erecting four triumphal a cost of *£l2oo each, ,Jtso for a Federal ode, and £SO for its i mu&ical setting. The President ef th<? Board of Health : jfli"" to confirm or <iony the Pre- , Boer's statement that Singleton's case is not plague. A medical expert has ; been despatched to-day te report. L Adelaide, November 16. w The Register says that owing te the 3 dry weaUwr in October, and uua visic Nation of lecnsts, the wheat yield will f jbave to be written down several million I bushels, and probably the actual result wi)l only be a little better than that of | Lurt year. It estimates between ten and : eleven million bushels, i'. Received 17,1.3 s.bl •Mut.bottrnb, November 16. s Turner has i hia Jiinistry as lollowa | Turner, Premier, Treasurer, and Gem - missioner of Customs; Isaacs, Attorney ; Peacock, Chief Secretary anc lliinister of Insiructien; Trenworth i Works and Labour; W. Gurr, Post i 'master-General; J. Morrisey, Agricul ; ;tore; D, Duggan, Lands 1 K ; : ilacGwgor, Mines; S. Gillott and U iO. Sterry. Ministers without portfolios ilhe Hon. A. Wynne, Solicitor-General represents the Government in thi Upper House. Probably a second JT6 BtewatetiYQ will to &ppwate<l«