AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 10 August 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

RB PMSB ASSOCIATION. > Sydney, August 9. Claims totalling over £34,000 have teen made in connection with the qawantining operations daring- the late plague outbreak, and a little over £IO,OOO is recommended to b<s paid. ■"■■'" The Premier has promised to s*op tner fartherenlistments of men for Bowth Africa, wbicb is now proceeding in 1 Sydney without his knowledge. He eonsiderca' tbe State had gone as far as necessary in sending troops.

By the fall of the balcony at Quir- '• indi twenty persons, including seven kales, were badly injured. Several had broken lege, and many others received slight injuries. Aublaidk, Augu't 9. The Italian cruiser Puplia ba.i arrived We en mote to China. She "'visits tbe various colonies, including New Zealand. Mblboubn*, August 9. The Moravia brought a number of returned troops, including thirteen . NewJSndanders. '■'■- Mr. Andley Coote, acting on behalf of the German Company, has applied to the Federal Postmaster for permiemon to l*y a cable from German New Guinea to Queensland. No details are given but it is understood it is hoped to have a landing placi in British New .Guinea. Received 9,10.80 p.m. SysHEV. August 9. The secretary of the London Mis- '■ mraary Society h*s received a telepram stating that the society's schooner . Olive Branch has been totally wrecked t on a reef • at Kwato Island, New Gnlnea. AH bands were saved. No details are to hand.