AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 9 July 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

(PER PBIiSS ASSOCIATION ) j iSTDNEV, July 8 i The River Boyne, which his arrived from Eaipar-, experienced violent gales and lost h u r hoa's and some bmls, and bad considerable damage done to deck cargo ar.d fi tings. At t,bo *heep sales 4©98 were Fold for c.mpsred with 3559 ebeep for £27,668 kft ywr, a fall of cent iii price though tbe quali'y was well maintained The decline is chi fly due to tbe inabi'ity of pastoralists in the drought-stricken districts of Ne v i South Wal s t'j tome into the nrnrkex Alb iky July 8. The troop3hip 0 ieat ha« arrived from Cape Town win hrga detaolm-n's returning Aust-alians. B;i;aniXE, Julp 8. I A biy named King has a.< tacked by plague. I Perth, July 8. I The Premier and Miuiat<rßf Wo ks coufernd wit'i the Riilnay Wo kdra' Ex cutivelst >igh'. Nothing dtfirii'e 1 re-u ted, and they will inee 1 ; again 'oday. Bbisbasr, July 8. In tbe el<ctions to fill the vacinris caused by the Federal Parl-ament for BundaburgMr. Barb r (Labou-) be\t a Miniiteiialis- f>r Ohutwrs Towrs, and Mr Bunovs (Libom) a Democratic Candida's iy good majorities. Adelaide, July 8. The Eist'rn Extension Company bns sefuied an offi.e. It sxpe.ts to h>ivu ;Cible commun'caiioo wirh tbe Cap 3 by January n< xt.