AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 71, 17 March 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PEE FBESS ABBOGJATION. Sydney, March 14. ! The mining statistics c.f last"yearj showed mineral wealth £6,006,000, a' decrease nf £;>64,600 on the previous j year. Gold detxwised in vulurt .£273,000. Dredging produced gold to the value of £89,043. The plants it operation were valued at, £289,000. Silver, lead, nrd z nc had a reputed j value of X 1,959,000, a deertasa on the \ previous year of £828,000. The fall in I prices practically crippled the industry, j j Coal was raised to the value of '£2,178,000, En incieasn of £510,000, the largest output yet recorded. Beckett, who was engaged in the cleansing epetaUons, has contracted plague. In consequence of the plague Bears interfering with the business, Musgrove's pantomime closed suddenly to-night, the company removing to Melbourne, An old woman named Tieweeke, said to be a r»ctnt arrival fioia New Zealand, was killed by an electric tram in the city. Melbourne, March 15. By the death of Mr Kingston tho building fund of tho Benevolent Asylum is enriched by £25,000. Brisbane, March 15. I Mayers large crockery warehouse | has bean partially d'&troyd by fiie, the damago b»ing rcug'niy £30,000. The Auglia wa.» 161 miles off at noon, when she pi«n:i]led "Ail YVeli," Hobaht, March 14. Lefltninn and Brov-nriyg plsadcd guilty; Iteming nteivd (ire years j and Browniigg four years' imprisonment. ; Perth, Ha-ch 14. At the inquest on the tody of 0. Y. , O'Connor, a verdict of suicidn while mentally deranged " w?s returned. Received 17, 1.9 a.m.

Sydney, March 16. A woman nsmcd F»irJie is suffering from plague at Camperdown. A man namsd Carrol! is plagued at Erskineville. To date ' here have been sixty cases. Eighteen deaths have occurred, and ten pati<-n:s were discharged. * In consequence of the drought endangering the Sydney water supply, inhabitants are only allowed to use the service for domestic purposis. Beisbane, March 16.

Mayers' i> surnnces are .£27,000, including £450!! jn ih« South British cffice and ,£4400 in the New Zealand Company's office.