AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 11 April 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. i Brisbane, April 9. Over six hundred men connected • with the pearling industry hive re- , movJ to new headquarters in . Nhw Guinea. This means a loss to ; Qupetifland of £25,000, be-ides the l"?*s to business peopta of Thursday Island. April 10. Oiie case of plague was reported yes- -j 9 terday. Melbourne, April 9. l In view of the removal of the head- - quartern of the pearling industry the r Government is making immediate in- ' s quiries with a view to seeing how far l the circumstances justify the action i. being token. The Parop h s been towed off It is - b-lieved she has 1 st some of the blades of her propeller. ' Sydney, \pril 9. ( Mr Lee, leader of 'h» Opposition, in >, a speech s i i the acount-, of the first » nine months of fcho financial year > e showed that the consolidated revenue ' had been overdrawn £374,000, the loin ' acc( unt was .£1,828,000 in debt, and e the Gov rnmect was now liable for a seven miU'ors, which it did not know wbera to find, y Received 10,10.20 a.m. IS Melbourne, April 10. ). A four-mis t-ed bar qui is reported a ashore at Fsh Creek. Her identity is unknown. Received 10, 6.22 p.m. Melbourne, April 10 The stranded ship is the Stratbgryfe, bnund from Cape Town to Sydney. The crew .ere safe. The captain suites in that 'lie vessel is faf j , and lying on a )g sandy bottom, and making little water, a- H» thinks she will come off when th<j at ballast i>> discharged, ils Received 10.10.45 p.m. ur 1 Sydney, April 10. to Mr Bo'ley, of Billarat, has purjn chased the Haut Brian—Triste cclfc for lis 850 gain#as. of At the wool sales 4000 bales were ro submitted. There was good competim tion for better class woolp. Grea c y sold up to 8d per lb, while the top price for scoured wools was Is sd. Brisbane, April 10. The Government offers 6500 reward for the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator of the Ithar-a murder. ; Received 11, 0.54 a.m. ( Sydney, A pnl ]O. The Piemier der e- Mr L e's st.ateail mens that the finances arc me For the first nine months the revenue an was a quarter cf a million better than 3n. for the corresponding pe iod of lftßt "d yeir. Considering the effec's of the "<rt Hronuht he regards the position as b'e satisfactory. He hopes to call Parliaon ment together in Miy, after the new soo Governor's arrival. >u- =====