AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 199, 8 September 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

TEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, Siptem'ier 7. Further rain has falltn at B (kin Hi'), and is now six months supply in hand. Sydney, September 7. • An old German woman nanud Pauline Mauellsr was T.uad in a house' with a butcher's knife diiven up to the ' hilt in her skull. The perpetrator of the Manilla murder is supposed to be a religious maniac. Brisbane, Sept-ember 7. The Government Agricultural Adviser estimates that the wheat and barley crops will exejed any previous Wheat is expected to yi. Id two . and a half million hushe'e, ami barley a quarter of a million. The average of both en ps is es imated at twenty-five bushels. j Sydney, September 7. ' S iled, 2 p.m., Ven'ma. Si e tak s a quarter of a million f specie. The Earl and C.un'ess of Lonsdale are j by ihis boit. E .rl Locsdalp, referring to the im- j pressions he hi" gath red during his j visit, thcught theie would be gre\t [ trouble here soon, as the political condition of the count y was very bid. Legislation nude it i-ltnost impossible for any large financial people to come to 'he country, Rt.d thus barn d its progress to a certain ex eot. He attrii u'es the condition eft its to the; doings of the Law ur Party, He hud been watching pol tics closely f-ii c-* !i>r< arrival, end especially the i.n'-cxir Party, for that was thf sidr; >r 'agisls ' tion he took most interest :>i if V.np- ; land. The p*ic < of labour v.a . Uo- j gether too high atid politicians were) overpaid, for in a)>iit>on to a bie! s4a<y thev go ! -pec al f<* : s iVr bitting j on commi't' «=. Kic i' e.' l 7. 11.24-■. m. Sydney, Semiembsi- 7. A nt:m v er of k;'ip<r!- of leUingehop3 were fin-d fiom £25 to £IOO for carrying oc b^t'ing. Received 8, 1.14 am. Melbourne, September 7. A young man named Patk'r, evidently mentally sought to f orce bis way to Government House armed with a revolver. Whe-t sccostt-d by a f!:ristal)!o he made rambling remarks about Kusfei'i goirg to »'ar with Bri'a'ii, ar:d insisted ou feeing the Govtrror, and presented the revolver at the constaUp, who closed with him, tie we-tpou ftom his hands, and secured the m n.