AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 170, 9 July 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LEGISLATIVE API'OINTME.X 1 e>. Received 811), j),ni. Syuucy, July 8. IJio Government has appointed : dozen members to the Legislative Conn «l, including Colonel Burns, Messrs I'h'lin, Gullett (ex-editor of the Dam telegraph), Hughes (Lord Mayor), am V. 15. U Connor (ex-Mmistcr). THEATRICAL -M A.\ A( Ii: PROTEST Received July 8, 11.30 p.m. . ~ Sydney, July 8. Uieeting of leading theatrical man agers, _ including .Messrs. Williamson Hemming Mevnell and Gunn, Willough by and Ward, West's Pictures, and Ed «in Geach, was held to-day as a protest against the Council's recent bylaw regarding tile management of theatres e meeting carried a resolution that the action of the Council was arbitral', m the extreme. ' A SCOW'S PLIGHT. ■Sydney, Julr 8. •the scow Maroro, 28 days out'from Raglan to Sytlnev, arrived oil' Port Stephens on Saturday morning short of provisions .She got a freSji supply from the lighthouse. The captain of tiie Maroro reports that he signalled to several steamers that lie was" short of supplies, but in each ease the signals were either not noticed or disregarded. STAR OF JAPANS SALVAGE. Sydney. July 8. Underwriters liavi? received advice by cable that £OO,OOO worth of sound cargo has been salved from the wrecked steamer Star of Japan. PENNV CABLEGRAMS. Melbourne, July 8. The Chief Electrical Engineer of the Commonwealth considers it would require ail enormous acceleration of speed to "jring the cable rate within tile possibilities of the penny a word suggested by Mr. Henniker Heaton, iri v In the present state of our knowledge 1 higher speed on long distance cables than a t present obtains does not appear possible. It must be considered, however, that telegrams without wires were looked upon as a dream. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Sydney, July 8. AUc (.government intends shortly to appoint from leu to twelve new members to tlie Legislative Council, INSURANCE AMALGAMATIOtV. Adelaide, July 8. The I'ull Court has conlirmcd the iced of amalgamation of the Mutual Life Association with the Citizens' Life assurance Company. THE AMERICAN FLEET. Melbourne, July 8. Tlie Commonwealth Government will •pend .01,000 on the entertainment >f the American fleet. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. -Melbourne, July The Minister for Agriculture, "refcr•ing to the heavy falling-oQ' i a the ex>ort of agricultural products, said there yas no doubt the time was rapidly ar•iving when a policy which would break ip big estates for agricultural purposes would have to be adopted. QUEENSLAND SUGAR YIELD. Brisbane, July 8. The sugar yield of the Queensland fields last year was 155,307 tons-a record.