AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 31 August 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PBS FBES-J ABSOCIATI»N. : Melbourne August 30. Dickson will be charged with embezzling Biims amounting to over £4OOO. The reported defalcations extended over fif eeu years. Racing is Supposed to be the cause. The evidence givau before the Committee appointed to inquire into the better means of '.ommuoication with Tasmania was in favour of a daily service with fast turbine steamers under Commonwealth control ! Psbth, August 30. ] The Assembly has appointed a Com- ' mittee to consider the supply, of cheaper meat, fresh or frozen. Brisbane, August 30. In the Assembly, the Premier, in reply to a p'oposil to establish a State ' sugar refinery, s«d it was madneps for j the Government to embaik any further sums in the industry at the present ', stage, as is was powible in a few years j no sugar wculd be (~*own in the State, as who had tried to grow it with j white labour faUed. The gir] Jouoquay's body was terribly mu' Hated, and the child's skull : smashed. An aboriginal named Gilbert ' was arreted on suspicion, but he . swallowed strychnin :>d 'ied. j Sydney, August 30. Mr Le Hutjte, Lieutenant-Governor ' of Ne<v Gu ; nca, is visiting Sydney. ! He favourably views the prospects and the possibilities of the possession. The revenue is increasing, and trade and go'd output eteidily expanding, cultivation spreiding, and the natives are gradually rep'acing savage customs with civilised idm*. A g:e»t drawback is their unwillingness to permit ' bona fide companies to take up large areas. If the pisse'sioa came under Commonwealth, wiser counsels would, prevail, and industries would rapidly | expand. I Beceived 30, 9.45 a.m. i i Sydney, August 29. ji A meeting of miliars and flour mer-1: chants discussed the unsatisfactory state of the bread stuffs markets, caused by cutting prices, and the large harvest surplus expected. It was decided to fix the price of leading brmds of flour at £6 15«, aid second brands at .£6 12» 6d. The meeting recommended the Federal Treasurer to place a duty of a sbillin? a cental on wheat. Received 30, 9.34 p.m. Melbourne, Augus*. 30 A warrant bis V>een issued for the arrest of A. H. Percival, hon. treasurer of Trinity College, on a chargn of larceny of ,£2OO. the property of the College. The alleged defalcations total over .£2OOO, and are extended over a period of five years Perc'val has disappeared. He omefrom Auckland some year* ago, who™ he pished through St. Joseph's College as a thei-1 logical student. Since coming to Melbiurne he h<is aofrd as a lay-reader at Christ's Church. Sydney, August 30. Arrived: Mararoa.