AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8029, 16 January 1906, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Received 15,11.10 p.m. Sydney, January 15. It is feared that the Scot foundcrec daring a heavy typhoon which wai raging just before she was due at Oeeai Island. The Lord Mayor entertained Princi Ferdinand of Savoy, and the officers o the Italian cruiser Calabria atluncheoi in the Town Hall. The secretary of the Wharf Laborers Union advised the grain handlers t( accept the new agreement. The men. however, declined. The secretary then told the stcvedora they were free to engage other unionists; failing them, non-unionists. Received. 16, 12.34 p.m. Sydney. January 15. Nonraean advices state that though the plague is decreasing, there is still some cases, there being several deaths, including two or three Europeans. ..... . Adelaide January 15. Rev. Fitehett, interviewed in regard to his visit to Britain, said that he was struck with the general prosperity. In regard to preference, England, apirt from its politicians, was waiting for the Colonies to move. He does not think Britain will'make up its mind in favor of Mr Chamberlain's scheme till the Colonies say that they want preference. England will accept a scheme of preference if her children across the soas declared, in favor of it. There was no telling when the day would come and in which -form it would take. There is, he says, a growing interest in Australia as a place for settlement. Received 16,1.6 a.m. Sydney - , January 15. Mr Parsons, Japanese Consul at Adelaide, visiting Sydney, complains bitterly that owing to the new liquo r Act he is unable to receive friends af an hotel on Sunday! He had to enter, tain them by walking the streets and doing the park. In the latter a constable debarred him from smoking, while another constable compelled his cab to 1 walk, because of passing at church: Such pharisaism, he says, does not make for the development of a. robust nation. Under the circumstances he is not sorry to depart from the Queen city. Other visitors make similar complaints. Received 16, 1.18 a.m. Sydney, January 15. Nigel Barker represents Njw South Wales at the Olympic games a J Athens. It is proposed to send Wheatley to represent Victoria, The Agents of the Japanese mail line have advised that the service with Australia will be resumed next month. The chief electoral officer has notified that New South Wales, on a population basis, is entitled to an increase of one member in the Federal House of Representatives, Victoria consequently losing one.

Adelaide, January 15. Arrived, the barque Zanista. She reports that early on Christmas morning she collided with the barque Coimbatore, 200 miles west of Cape Leuwin. It is belicred the Coimbatore sank. When the Zanista drifted clear she sighted what appeared to be a boat with two men clinging to it, and a second going to the rescue of the first. The Zanista hove to, and cruised about for thp remainder of the night. Next day she saw no traces of the Coimbatore, which was coal laden from Ncwcantle,,, to Port Elizabeth. While locked together one of her crew jumped aboard the Zanista. The latter had her bowsprit and some of her gear carried away.