AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 124, 20 June 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

PES PRB3S ASSOCIATION. Beceived 18, 9.12 a.m. Melbourne, June 18. The will of the late EI war! Kiep, ' iron merchant, has been lodged for , ptoba'e. The colonial esta'e is valued at £245,000. Tho fita'e Parliament opens to-day. ' The following new members have been returned to fill vacanc'es created by tbe Federal elections Gippsbnd North, M Keogh; At«m, Mr Mitchell; Gunbower, Mr Oullen ; Benalia, Mr Hall; , Footscray, Mr Fotkeringbam ; Fitzroy, Mr O'Connor. Perth, June 13. A oor stable who (on'ractel smallpox aboard the Ormuz is dead. The State is declired free of plagu°. Received 18 19.3 a.m. Melbourne Jure 18. The Federal Cabinet is diecueaiDg the question of ths relationship of the islands of the Pacific to the Commonwealth. Nothing is revealed as to the! trend of the discission. Received 18, 9.32 a.m. Melbourne, June 18. The Federal Parliament entertained J tbe members of the State Parliament : at dinner. Lord Hopst-un eulogized the wonderful orderliness of Australian crowds. He valued the opportunity he had of "becoming acquainted with tbe peop'e.. He said he had spent the beet yea's of his life in Vic'om, and he loved AustnH«. ; Beceived 19,12.54 p.m. j Melbourne June 19 At the hilf-yearly meeting of the Kami Timber Company the Chairman' songra'ulatad tbe shn-eh' ldcra upon | the satisfac'ory po-i ion and increasing , demacd for timber. There was a I credit surplus of £23,550 against a total credit os £42,000 io the previous Jane. The Oomptny would lose by tbe defalcations of the late managing director at Auckland, the whole cf the embezzled money having bren re-' covered. The amount inv lved in con- ! nection with tbe comraital frr trial of one of the C mpany's Molbrurne officer.! did not exenrd £1.200. Be-, yond these two unfortunate incidents( the affairs were in evtry way + atisfactory and prosperous. It-is not in-tended-to declare an interim dividend, . _as it was tecesjary to p-y interest and i ■inking fnnd on July Ist. 1 Beceived 20, 116 a.m. ' Sydsey, June 19. i; S tiled: Eangemite, j Mr. Bell, chief clerk of the TTn'on Company has been appointed manager. of the North Coast S'eamship Company.! Melbourne, June 17. 1 Sailed : Talune. ■ Newcastle, June 19. j Sailed : Celac, for Westport. j