AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 295, 13 December 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PUB PKESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, Deoembar 12. J The health authorises consider that! no other steps are necessary in regard i to plague than those at present beiog j taken. j The Government hag received con-) Srmatorv reports of the success of the first bulk shipment of wheat by the! Per.iic, which was landed at Liverpool! ia excellent conditioti, quite equal in' very respect to bagged graiD, and[ found a ready s ile. j

As a rjsulr. of the Oaaatia casa the Customs authorities have resumed the practice of sealing the stores of all ■versa i v-ssels.

Delegates to the Australasian Conference accompanied the athletic team 'o Auckland.

Circulars have born received in Syd- j j oey from the mayor of Exeter appial-1 j ing for shilling subscriptions in aid of j a memorial to commemorate the bril- j 1 lianfc servic s of General Buller d u r;ng; his military cirier. It is expl a j n 'd j that the movement is free from party' • biis, and that subscriptions are being! - sought from all parts of the Empire. Melbouhnb, Dece m ber 12 In the House of Bep re(ientatim j Mr Ear-on ftated that h j„ }n . j' formed S r Wilfrid Laur ier that tSe Commonwealth h,d not recflived an , official invitition to bo r eprfisen , e * nfc j the coronation, but if an invitation i was rec-lived it would be nccep . e( j. An ' Australian representative wonld be ' ; *° , ro "P era,e , wit h Canada and' New Zealand m the Proposed confer-,' ence m London. ! In the Senate Mr D r ake explained he Postal and Tele g . aph Rntps B ]l< He expected to ret £35,000 from newspaper postage, and he proposed to devote this and othe r revenue to meeting the reduction i n graphic rate?, which amount, to £45 qqq In commit; tee an ' Rm ; ndraen fc wns caviled the shilling tele-g-aphio rate t 0 Tasmania, a proviso relanog to add{i{ on g cbargps being strucko of u fBrisbane, December 12. j . Government has mt received £126 )0 oo from the War Office,! being tingents. I