AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 52, 17 February 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Sydney, February 15. i I The Australian Workers' Union has authorised Mr Macdonald, its general secretary, to visit New Zeahnd to obtain the latest information as to the | working of the Arbitration Act, j ; The State revenue for seven months, including £1,333,000 returned from the Commonweath, totalis £6,784,000 an increase of £824,000 as aompared' with the same period lust year, The Federal tariff contributed £434,000. I Several of the Labour Unions have carried resolutions condemning the anti-British resolutions adopted at the recent political Labovr League Conference. The Ophir has returned to Sydney in her former capacity of mail steamer. With the exception of the saloon and smoking-room leather upholstery all the furnishings for the Royal tour have disippsared. The employment of L&pcar firemen and stokers en the Omrah having proved satisfactory a fimilar change has slio been made on the Ophir. Arthur Smylhe. the cyclist, ha« | lowered the world's amateur paced I five miles standing start record to j 9mln. 41 l-siec. I Obituary: Dr. George Goode, at one time in the service of the New Zealand Government.

| Melbourne, February 15. I The Pacific Cab e Board has adv'sed I Mr Barton that the Queensland-New Zealand-Fiji eectiou of <h« Pacific , ctble will be op?n for traffic in April or May instead cf June. It is alto anti- ! ciptted that ...the, Canada-Fsji section j will be ready in August or S pt»mb«r, three months inside contract time. Mr Bar'on stated that the Eabtern Ex'.enfion Company's attitude with regard to . the Oipe cable is so unsatisfactory that : negotiations will hav« to start de novo. .

i Brisbani, Fsbru-.ry 15. The brigantine Prosperi'y, from, j Richmond River, with a , e.rgoof J machinery, was driven uehore iij a gale jeaily this morning at Point Lookout, and is a total wreck. The mate and cook were drowned* Perth, February 15. Natives attacked the ketch Ventura at Cadell Straits, and killed one ef the crew namtd Lewis and injured another. Received 16, 6.25 p.m. j Sydney, December 16. A boy named Mclntyre is plagued. He was engaged e ling f.uifc at Her Majesty's Theatre, which is closed for disinfecting, Received 17, 0.65 a.m. J Sydney, February 16. Lane, 0»vill, and Read (New South Wales), and Gailsy (Queensland), representatives at the Wgioganui Swimming Championships, are passengers by the Wescralia. A man named Doran has been plagued at Redfern.