AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 203, 12 September 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, September 11. A rnin named Stewar f , who had been anested at Coogee for pissing valueless chfques, escaped from a do- ! t- ctive and jumped over a cliff and was j killed. j An amending Old Age Pensions Bill has b:en introduced in the Assem- • bly. It ie> intended to remedy a numj ber of abusts and to make well-to-do i children k**«p their parents. It will ' save several thousands a yeir by revising the im-tliod of paying pensions. Melbourne, September 11. Arrangem - nts have been made with the fcleeraph office to give the same facilities for dupliflftting cable mfssages ps are enjoyed by the Easteen Exten-j eion Company. i Beisbane, September 11, j Suspected murder is reported from iS7nrwick, where the decapitated body ff a youth named Dont-.M Mace was found in the bush. He lift heme seme waeks ago with two companions on a hunting expedition, Received 11, 10.15 p.m. Sydney, September 11. First Lieutenant Drummond, of the warship Wallaroo, has &uc:embed to pneumonia. I Three men occupying a bedroom at Miller's Point were overcome by an escape of gas. One man named 3orrensen is dead, and the others are in a critical condition.