AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 October 1907, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Heceived Oct. 3, 0.18 a.m. Sydney, October ± A Mutational explosion occurred at Circular Quay this evening. A launch' belonging to the Murte Dock, with over I thirty dock hands aboard, was lying at the quay, when the boiler burst The noise was heard for miles. The vessel opened up and sank. All the passengers were resetted. The master of the launch received a few scratches. No one else received the (lightest injury. Pieces oi the wreckage were hurled into George- I Street. A furnace door was thrown into the air and crashed on to the deck of the (learner Eastern. There were many Harrow escapes from flying detjris. In connection with the Myerson bankruptcy, in which two of the firm were ■eateaced to imprisonment, the Official Assignee announces that of the missing JEMOO he has received £3OOO, that amount having been handed to him by • tody. Beccived Oct. 3, 0.55 a.ra. Sydney, October 2. Wool continues in good demand. The prices are maintained. There is kc?n competition for good wools. Muller has -been arrested in connection with the South African murders. He admitted his identity. The rainfall for September was 06 to 100 per cent, below the average for many years. " Brisbane, October 2. Two cases of plague have occurred here, the victims being a woman and a boy. The latter is dead. Melbourne, Octolwr 2. In the House of Representatives tho Speaker announced the receipt of a t*'l >- gram from Sir Joseph Ward thanking the Commonwealth for its ronjrratnliiions on the establishment of New Ze-i-Und as a Dominion.