AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 194, 29 August 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Per Press Association. Sydney, August 28. The Farmers' Co operative Society, in conference, resolved to fix < he selling price of spriog surplus choice buster for eipart at ten pence per pound. Melbourne, August 28. Tom Mann, in a Socialistic speech at Roxhill, spoke wildly of shooting down people who would not do a fair share of work. He also urged the taxing of owners of property bearing rent or receiving interest out of their property, The meeting carried a resolution, that the people of the State had sufficient intelligence to continue to work out their destiny without the aid of imported advocates. Received 29 1.13 a.m. Sydney, August 28. Arrived, at 10 a.m., Talune from Victoria.

The certificate of the captain of the Mildura has been suspended for six mon'hs. The burglary at the Union Company's office in 1894, which led to the execution of Montgomery and Williams, has been revived by a confession received from London, said to be made by a third man implicated, and who escaped. The police disbelieve the story, having facts in their possession which show fhat the third mun is now serving a life sentence at Paris for a murderous assault ou a woman. Ic is believed tbe confession is merely a ruse '.O seeure a free passage to Australia. Received 29, 1.8 a.m. Sydnby, August 28. The Government has decided to call for tenders fer the construction for this State of 60 passenger and 100 goods engines, the supply to be spread over four or five yeirs.