AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 67, 3 April 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

(PEH PREPS ASSOOIATieX). R- ccited 2.1.8 a.m. (Received 1, 9.36 a.m.) Melbourne, April 1, Mo'S vreckai>e marked with the name Federal has been picked up at Malloc. o'a. The wife of the cook of the st.-amer identified a lifebelt as beloaging to her husband. Stbney, April 1. The S''err& mads tbo passago from | Auckland in 3 days 3 hours 37 minateg. Brisbane, April 1. The Chamber of Commerce discussed the ill effects of the American shipping laws on Australian trade and decided to refer th' q nation to the Associated Chambers' Conference at Melbourne id May, with a view to let the Federal Parliament take action. Received 2, 9.45 a.m. Melbourne, April 2, The New Zealand Federal Commission takes evidence to-day. Colonel Pitt states that Mr. Barton assured him that if New Zealand dt-oided to come in it may do so as an eriginal Stale Bmsbihe, April 2. Lily Shearer, a child, died of plaeue. Perth, April 2. The schooner Alto has arrived at Broome with 121 shipwrecked people aboard, passengers and crew of the sterner Karrakat'a, bound frese Fremant'e to S ; ngavere. The steamer struck an unknown rr-ck off Cape Swan on the night of March 26th, and commenced to sink. Owing te the coolness of the officers all hands were safely tratssfeired to the boats which hung by the disking steamer till daylight, then landing on Sunday Wand. Thevessel is a total wreck. Received 2, 9.45 p.m. Stdnbt, April 2 The Governor has departed for Melbourne.

Obituary - Harry Franks, the A«s-| traHan representative of the Linotype. The negro body found at Liptrap is evidently a result of impaifect burial .at sea. The box was weighted with five hundred weight of scrap iron. (Received 2, 9 53 a.m.) Baker's sentence of death for the attempted murder of Detective Toomey, has been commuted te imprisonment for life. Received 3,1 25 am. Sydney, April 2. The selection of six names for the Senate from the fifty candidates imposed a seyere (ask on a large number ef e'ecters. To date twenty per cont. of informal votes have been cast. The coal lumpers resume work tomorrow. Out of five rules passed by the owners the men have agreed to two, rejected two aod amended one. Melbourne, April 2. Lord received au enthusiastic reception.