AUSTRALIAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 262, 4 December 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

FEDERAL SENATE ELECTIONS. MELBOURNE, Dec. 3. Seventeen . candidates, including one woman, have been nominated for the Senate. THE SECOND ADVENT. Bishop Langlcy, of Behdlgo, i% his Advent sermon, said the great social upheavals now affecting the whole world represented one of the signs of the coming of the end of the world. It appeared to him that the Second Advent would not now be long'"delayed. STRIKE OF CHINESE. The Chinese strike has ended, the employers conceding the modified demands of the employees. PLAGUE OUTBREAK. ] BRISOANE, Dec. S. A case of plague is reported from Cairns.' ' .WELL-MERITED REWARD. Rec. 3, 11.25 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 3. The Government presented Captain Todd with a gold medal in recognition of. his meritorious conduct on the oecias'ao<n of the loss of the Overlau. FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Rec. 4, 1.12 a.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 3. The Federal nominations closed today. Messrs Chapman, Turner, Deakin, Kniigfrton, and Holder were returned unopposed. New South Wales nominations for seats include two women. The whole of t!he Tasm.anian seats are being contested. FIRE IN SYDNEY. S !,-. FV ti,,,,. 3_ A fire destroyed one of the large building's in Toot's brewery to-night, and a qf.iamtity of valuable machinery was burnt. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO, and the insurances amount to £14,000.