CABLES EPITOMISED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 203, 31 August 1904, Page 3

CABLES EPITOMISED.

A seventy-eight ounce nugget has been discovered in the Dee River, Queensland.

The schedule of Joseph Flanagan, a Melbourne accountant, Bled in insolvency, shows debts totalling £GS,000 and assets £lO3.

Dissension exists amongst the Labour supporters oi the new West Australian Premier, who is accused of breaking away from his Labour principles. In the English county cricket championship, won by Lancashire, the eleven secured sixteen matches, lost none, and drew ten. Yorkshire came second, winning nine, losing two, and drawing sixteen. Tho Federal High Court, in reversing the Full Court's decision in a case under the Cattle Slaughtering Act, decided that sheep and pigs are not included within the term "cattle." The decision involves £OO,OOO annually in New South Wales, in the shape of fees for slaughtering.' Sir John Forrest, presiding at a Victorian Women's League meeting, said the Labour Party had a good name for organisation when it represented tho toilers of the country, but now anyone who liked' to sign a caucus pledge could be a Labour candidate. The party now consisted of lawyers, doctors, parsons, und such people, who had never done a day's work with their hands in their lives.