AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 168, 13 June 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. j Melbourne, June 12. i The Senate re lunpd the duty on felt ha's and caps to 25 per cant, and has I placed bass sicks, ba'es f>r ■ bran, chaff, coraprespe 1 fodder, p' tatoes, oniop.B, ce, wood; Hessi n flour sugar bags, and corn sacks on the free list. . Adnvral Beaumont has udvived Mr Deakin that the French flov»rnment (has issued regulators for the New ! Hebrides similar to the British with !ref-renc» to the rcruinng of nativ j women and the importation of h'Tsrms. | The fffctisto temnve thb advantagj French traders had over British. Tt'i« I action is regarded as s'owins a desire : \o work in ) armony "with Great Bri- ■ tain. I There is a growing exedu l . of Vici toriarß to South Afric since poire has been derlir.d. Hobaht, June 12. At tha Midlands Shep Slnw MThomas Gibson took tt e bulk of oliampior ships awaidd for M;n'n>p. Receive"* 12, 10.24 p.m. HtisnANK, June 12. The Min'Ver for Railways has de cided to abo isb free railway passes, which he'Stimates Ufctyn.tr cost, thr State .£030,000. In future all Stat departments will piylike tie gener.u public. The Central Qie-nsland MeitPomi pary has V"- n te-ed wi h i cptta' of .£150,000, to aequi-e the business of th>- C»ntn! Meat Export Company. Tre timber raerchaus have formd "< trust to protect the interests of the trad > ! Received 13, 0.50 a.m. '■ Sydxey, June 12. Good showers hive tal'ei in th<? ' coas al dis'ric's, bit. the weather is i vsry Cvld, ciuiing the death of • numbers of s'arving stfck. ! Melbourne, June 12. ' Lord Hopetoun, thrmgh the secretary to ths unemployed, has donated

£IOO for a dinner to tha uuimployel ar,d their families on Coronation Day, He sends a similar sum to Sydney, and specidiy desins that tbe functions be cairied out without ostentation,