AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 63, 6 March 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Keceired 5, 11.10 a.m. Sydney, March 5. Three bays named Anderson and another named Montrose wero drowned through the capsizing of a boat in Surprise Bay. Hobart, March 5, Herbert Learning Biownrigg ha* i confessed to the b-nk roliberv. j Melbourne, March 5 I Commandant and Mis. Bo>th have j announced that they are both cm-i I pelled to retire from active service in the Salvation Army on the ground of . health, Rather than risk becoming ■=> burden thoy hav« d<-c d d to se> k (lighter tupl •v.x'nt outsidw the ranks. j TheCx'lgai-iie is not plague. Receive! 5, 11.4' a.m. Mblbouknb, March 5. Mr. Barton, in the course of a stat6rnent,sa : dtbat und«r th« Ne*< Hebrides postal contract negoti tioi s with th< Burns ani Philp s>rvi e will hn extended to the Gilbert and E'hce group?. The replacing of the black by white crews will be a consideration on payment of a small additional amount. The land held by Burns and Philp whs i that acquired by the Australasian Ne* Hebrides Company. It is unders'o d the Company had not beennsucc.ss and had parted with its r'ghtsto Barns and Fbilpi If the negotiations are successful the land will be thrown open on long leases at nominal rent. Sattlers and their bslongiogs will ba carried to the islands free. The Commonwealth did not propose itrelf to become the owner of lands at New but might make an arrangement to enable settlers to acquire such conditions as wou'd afford a ciunt»rpoi<-e to a hrge settlement ui.dor o W ■> grnisations. *ydn /, March 5. At tho wool sales bidding for all sections in the tjvida w-s animatei, and pricrs fully level with previous sale-i. Great preparations are being made for a rat crusade to-night. Frepared poison has bs<n distributed throughout; the ci'y and suburbs. The Moana steamed from Brisbane to Sydney in thirty-on* hours, a record. Communications that have passed between Mr. Barton and Mr, Chamberlain r« the Army meat contracts show the War Office considered the distribution of meat on the t-pot of primary importance. Mr. Barton pointed out that tbe tender forms did not give any intimation of preference being given ts spot delivery, and urged that it was only fair under tbe circumstances that the contract should be revised or, fresh tenders called. In the la'est cable Mr. Ohamber'ain siys tbe decision tb»t spit delivery was or primary importance was only arrived at a very la'e stage, and there was no tim»> to intimate the change to tmderars. It was found that Bergl put in a tender on c.i.f. basis lower ihin Australian tend >rs. H» reg' et* I e cannot now revis* the contract and ie-t;pen tendeis. Received 6, 1.6 a.m. Sydney, March 5. Arrivtd : Talune. S No case* of plague are leportrd trday. The Methodist CH:f.<renc=> adootarl th"« rrtromruHnditioii <f the Fiji District Svnol in favour of the establishment of a Irish sch ol £ >r Fiji >n b ;ys. Thfl l.o' = e-i of ihe c >ach a'. Mui'vviilumbah bolted and the coach was overturned. A girl nam fed Viney was killed, two other piSfengew aerioudy and 3everal slightly injured. Adelaide, March 5. The trial of .Mary Siirippan for tbe murder of her sifter has opened, but the publication of the evidence is prohibited. Newcastle, March 5. Arrived : Islands, from Auckland,