AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 20 March 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PBB PBESS ABSOCIATTPY. Brisbane, March 19. The Arglia notified yesterday that she bad laid the shore end of the cable at Norfolk Island, t.hu« completing the first section of tbe Pacific cable. A fire did a large amount of damage at HeindotffVr's pimo w«rehouse. The insurances, which it is understood sre under the 10% include £3490 in the National T)f New Zealand and £1650 in the New Zealand Insurance Company. Syi>nky, March 19. The patif nt Fairlin is dead. The Stockowners' Association petitions tbe Pri mier to formulate a plan to exterminate rabbits, owing to the great and increasing national loss caused by the peat. The pastoralists suggest offering a reward of £50,000 for an effective scheme. A considerable section of the shearers' shed h 'nds, reseating tbe penalties impt.serl W the Australian Workers' Union, have organised and registered under the Arbitration Act a Union cf their own. The msin objects of tbe new organic ion are to improve l relations between emt loveis and employee*, to settle d spiit, s by arbitr.ition, and to estaHisH a U>i on free of the haavy unnecessary fe« of membership and highly paid officials. Received 19,10.50 p.m. Sydney, March 19. Frf sb plague rases ■ eported are three youths, Winn (Surrey Hill?), Eldridge (Erskinville), and Maher (Redfern).