AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 232, 28 October 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Adelaide, October 27. A party fishing in the 9 ton cutter Investigator, in the Strait, hooked a! schnapper. A 20-foot shark pursued J and struck the cutter, making a large j hole in her. Tha party had barely time to escape in a dingy before tbe cutter sank. The force of the impact killed the shark. Charters Towers, October 27. There was an unprecedented hailstorm, followed by heavy rain. Fruit trees were cut up and poultry killed. Many business people suffered severely, the hail blocking tbe gutters and causing an overflow. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. Received 28. 1.7 a.m. Melbourne, October 27. Arrived: lndrad vi, from London. Brisbane, October 27. Tbe Pyladfg visksd the Sjlomons to enable Mr Jackson to confer with Mr U. M. Woodford, the reside at Commissioner, prior to visiting Queensland. The Premier tomorrow confers with Mr Jackson on tho question of the deportation of Kanakas, but what will be the scope of the the Premier is uoable to gay. It is rumoured that Mr Jackson has been askei by the Home authorities to report on the probable effect of the recent Federal legislation on the deportation of Kanakas, Received 23, 0.32 a.m. Sydney, October 27. The Attorney-General declined to file i B 11 in the Cheest-boroughs Marshall al'eged marriage conspiracy case. There is no news of the Ovalau, and arrangements are completed for an exhaustive search, and a sharp look out is being kept at all costal stations. The Government has arranged to despatch the pilot steamer Captain Cook tomorrow morning to zig-zag to Lord Howe Island. The naval authorities aave ordered the Mildrra and Pylades, qow at Brisbane, to st.irt on a search to-morrow, the former proceeding to Lord Howe, and the the Pylades to Norfolk Island. The Burns Philps steamer Ysibel, after coaling at Newcastle, joins in the search, and the Patiflque, which is sailing from Sydney to-morrow, will ke< p a sharp lcok-out So Lord Howe inland. With the Hauroto and Bit karate, en route from the Islands, seven vessels will be •earching, each taking a different course. Brisbane, October 27. Arrived, Pylades, with Mr Jackson, High Commissioner of the Pacific.