AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 59, 1 March 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER VB.KSB ASSOCIATION. Sydney, February 28. So dire are the <■ fleets of the drought thot for" miles below B mrke the Darling has cased to run. ' The Lachl.iu is even wsr.-e, and the Muirumbidgee car only by courtesy be called a rive". The Namoi has also ceastd tunning. Tnedea'h of Miss Bailie Booth has caused deep i egret in theatrical circlet). Free poison is being distributed to householders for the crusade against rat« next Wednesday. The block in which the Post Office is situated has been declared an infectc d area. The Federal Government has approved placieg ,£2OOO on the estimates towards set.ding a team ti Bisley in IJuly next, and steps are being taken to 'secure a team for MelL: urne. Melboukne, February 28. The duty on Oregon pine has been reduced to sixpecce pir 100 superficial Ifeefc. Ou undressed timber, sizes le*s than ptfven by two and ahalf inch! s, the duty was reduced from 2s 6d to Is 6d. Other du-ie s . were not altered. Received 1, 0.40 a.m. Sydney, February 28. Arrived: Mararoa. Williams is dead. There were no cases to-day. Forty casei to date, eleven death", four discharge i, Melbourne, F-ibruary 28

T.ifre is a Mineral f<e!iig that the gum antf e for ot't lining mi at fr m Austral a and New Zea'aid uud«r t,l e new contract is not satisfm-tory Mr. B<rtan has eir- afmther ivtble ou the subj ot, but the cun'euta ara net pub'ic. Liuis Thonus Nawbeggin »nd Jr-ssi* Shat!cros3 were found d«»»d in a paddock near They left. 1 t'ets sv.t ng their intention of suicide. The deaths were caused by syrychnine.