AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 46, 6 March 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[PBK PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Received 5, 9.22 a.m. I Stohey, March 5. Tha Sydney Hat Company's isc ory was partially destroyed by fire and u quantity of hsuneti made for the de partiag Contingents wa» destroyed. The Government commences forth with the erection cf giain elevators Mid old storage premises at Newcastle at a eost ef £60.000.

Melbourne, March 5. Sir John Madden is suffering from isenviu prostration. Me. Mitbieion, Railway Commissioner, his accepted the General Managership «f the Midland Railway, and severs his connection with Victoru cs aeon as the rash of tiaffic consequent on the Royal visit is over. . Becaived 6, 0.28 a.m. Sydnkt, March 5. Writs for the Seisate election have been issued. Beisbank, March 5. The late rains gave a six months'! supply of water. I The Mount Morgan mine is in foil swing again. There is gmt difficulty in delivering the Federal election documents outside M>e districts owing to the effects of the are necessary, while others are only rea " <sn * ,, le w»'h camels. Mr. ■**'■ ™ tne troo P sn ip Tempiemore >" a &*** «onths holiday in South Atl**»> Mr. Rutledge, Attorney-General, *iH *>* ActingPrsseier during his abt else. Received 6, 1.8 a.fif. Stdnbt, March 5, The police are working on New' Ziil' land information which connect! a woman wita the Conway cise, whore arrest they hope to maky shortly. It is understood that the purchase of certain poison, prior to the Talune laaving for Sydney* has been traced, and probably Eoinctlung will be htard of this when thn analyst's roparfc if made known at ths resumed inqnest or Friday.