AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 85, 21 March 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

FIB PKKS ASSOCIATION) Sydney, March 20, ' The Wharf Labourers Union Las formulated ademand for increased rates generally aid alterations of working hours. The demand will probably b» referred to arbitration. The new shearers' organisation's terms are practically the same as those of the 1891 agreement. The Workers' "Union claims that it is a device of the •quatters to defeat the Union's demand for higher rates> There has been showery weather in the coastal districts the last few days, but so far insufficient to augment the water supply. The German cruiser Cormoram has arrived from an Island cruise, A scheme was mooted in theatrical circlbs to erect a monument to Misses Sallie Booth and Ada Lee, actreises. Mr Charles Arnold cablei from Auckland that he bad ordered a monument amd"that there was no need for subscriptions. A youth named Avery has contracted plague at the Haymarket. Noumtan news s'atee that a quantity of wreckage consisting ef wooden fit tings, apparently belonging to a steamer, a switchboard with electric light burners attached, and a piece of woed evidently off a boat, bearing th«name Agar, have been washed ashon at Tuoho. Bough weather had recently prevailed off the coest. Under the Alien Immigration law the captaia of a German steamer habeen fined £lO on each case for allowing two prohibited aliens to esc pe ashore.

Brisbane, March 20. A girl named Bickered ale has developed plague. Melbourne, March 20.

Albert McNamata has been ssteoced to death for maliciously setting fire to a shop, his four-year-old child perishing in the flames.

Received 20,10.18 p.m. Sydney. March 20.

Further plogue cases are two youths, Robertson (Surrey Hills) and Godwin (Bealey), and a man named Baldock at Kogarah. Two of to-day's and three previous patients were employed by a city printing firm.