AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 235, 16 October 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PKB PttBSS ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, October 15. At the invitation of the Mayor, Major-General Sir Hector McDonald was a guest at a gathering of prominent citizens, including Mr Barton and the • Federal Ministeis, at tbe Town Hall. % The Gfneial, in acktow'edging the entbwvastic iscept'on, said he wag iot vain enough to thi"k tbe complime' t<= paid bim were purely personal. He considered they were intended to mark their appreciation of the quiet, manly aesiduoas work done by the rank and file of the British Army, of which he was proud to be an unwoithy representative. Sydsey, Octob r 15. A doputation representative of the Women'a Christian Temperance Union asked the Premier to push on the Women's Sutfr»ge B 11, which was rejected by the Council. Mr See promised to reintroduce it, and make every effort to pa's it. Received 16,0.40 a.m. Sydney, October 15. Sulsd: Ventura, at 2.15 p.m. She took £150,000 in specie. Receiver! 16, 0.59 am. Sydney, October 15. The billiard match of 21,000 op (Roberta allowing Weiss 5500) was won by Weiss by 1811 points. Two burglars wore diswwred in the house of Captain Caiey, of the steam > . Moena. A constable surprised them, and secured one and thot. the other, breaking bis leg. The latter made a desperate attempt to ef cape after beinc wounded.