AUSTRLIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 37, 11 February 1903, Page 3

AUSTRLIAN SUMMARY.

• —- FEB PRESB ASSOCIATION. Stdne*, February 10. A s-rious outbreak of typhcil has occurred at Conamble. Twenty-fivai cases are at the hospital, and others are awaiting admission. The authorities are investigating the came. j The Cspa Government has accepted] a lo3al tender for the supply of half a i million railway steppers. ! The Premier and his wife will pay a r holiday visit to New Zaalmd in the first week in Mircb, Efforts to raise funds to send a team to Bisley to compete for the Kolapore Cup are meeting with a poor response, j A Liberal Reform Loagui tns been fsrmed. Mr Garruthers, Loader of the Oppo sition in the S ate Assembly, in a speech said that the Lsigue bad no fiscal faith ; its main aim was to oppose the present Government, which had inaugurated a system of socialism in connection with State works whieh scientific socialists would be ashimed of, because it was an association with the elements of corruption and political patronage.

I Melbourne, February 10. Mr John Holmfs,whi has returned from England, in an interview strongly urged the necessity of the State ap'pointing Trade Gommigaioneis todevelope its expDrt trade, | The tug Kapi'i, bund from Glasgow to Wellington, has passed Wilson's Promo , ory. The Federal postal rev nue fir ths ' half-year was £ 1,197,000, b <iog slightly in excess of the Trsasu er'« estimate. j Received 10, 10.30 p.m. Melboubne, F. b.-uary 10. Another heat wave -his (-truck, the city, the temperature bei-tg 105 in tha sba'ie. Vic'oria imported l>at week 300 bags of wheat fron New Zealand and 100 from Adelaide. Received 11, 0.59 p.m. Sydnett, February 10. Sir E. Barton referring to the cablegram as to Mi- Wise's at the Eighty Club, said he sttaehtd no importance to it, as its was ridiculou-t to suppose that any after dinner utterance could bo held to bind the Commonwealth Government.