AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 100, 25 April 1903, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

PEB PlU;*!> ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, April 24. A girl nsmed Anderson a* Nafcimuk .pparently died, but when the und<<raker arrived with a cotfio he fouod hat aha was alive, and evidently in a ranee. The girl, however, died tha ame evening. Oap'ain Lindsay, eon of Earl OrawFord, and on Viscount Ouizon's s'ail in India, has marrhd Miss Oiarke, daughter of the late Sir Willhm Clarke. Brisbane, April 24. Heavy rain fell at Coen, where 11 inches was recorded in twenty-four hours. A suspension bridge at tha township was washed away and one residence distroy«d by tho flood. Tbera were several narrow escapes from drowning. Launoeston, April 24. Three men, named Penny, iGobbling, and Tippet, were sentenced to five years eicb for receiving tin ore stolen from Mount BischofF mine. Received 24,-9.55 p.m. Syd*ey, April 24. The Oootamundn floods h/.vn tubsided. Tha main line was not irjured, bus several of the branch lines were damaged. A big faH of rain occurred at Jiudal. e Valley, when the water came d >wn on' the town without warning and iu a little time. Pe. pis had to place their property in sifety. The dumige is estimated at £SOOO. Received 25, 1.26 a.m Sydney, April 24. The agreement arrived at by the Premiers' Conference, on ths uss of the Murray Rivor water, provides that during normal of low dis&arge New South Wales and Victoiia shtll be restricted as to th« quinfity to be dr.iwu off, the incie>so or decrease of this quantity heing con'i'gnnt on : thj height of the riv.r at Mo"j.;ao, South Australia. The agreema>!t in for ?, [five years. Three Commissioners m- ; Ipiessntiog tach State concerned will bi appointed to administer the agreement, and in the event of a dispute the Chiof Justice of Queensland is to be , sole tubi rator. ] "'■ ■■ . I" ~, s ' I