AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

FEB FBESS ASSOCIATION. j Perth, Decrmbpr 31. C«ptain Woorhouse, who navigated tbe New Zealand Government's submarine mining s'eamer, Lady Koberfs, to Albany, has been removed to the hospital with typhoid fever. The vessel proceeds to New Zealand without him. Melbourne, December 31. Mr Barton has received from Mr Chamberlain a copy of a despatch from the British Minister at Buenos Ayres respecting immigration to this New Australia settlement. It refers to the fact that] John Lone has been appointed honorary agent for Australia with a o-rr" to immigration to Paraguay, and further states^ J *'|jpg| livelihood is obtainable m*y mitted, but immigrants will be disappointed if they expect a pro»perous one. Tbe Paraguay Governm nt offer inducements in tbe shape of facilities for the acquisition of land, but tbe grants are coupled with provisions in . favour of squatters already in nomina occupation. This leads to trouble which has already been felt in the New Australia colony." The despatch also sounds a warning as to the laxity of repression of crime in Paraguay and the presence of a floating ill-conditioned element very nady to have recourse to | the knife and pistol, i Received 1, 1.6 p.m. | i Mblbourne, December 31. Archdeacon Lmgley has been elected of Bendigo, and Archdeacon [ Armstrong Bishop of Wangsratta, two newly created Sees.