AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 176, 16 July 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BARQUENTINE iN TKO LI 1)1.1-. s ~- ■ Reoeived 15th, -10.18 pan. Sydney, July IS. {lie bonjuentine Vol&dor, bound from, , GreyTOOuth ta Sydney, put in Trial Bay '' frith bar topmast earned away. She ■ ■ ceeomes her journey repairing. * ' A FATAL QUARREL. " : Melbourne, July 15. ■" • Owing to a qnarrel a young married :' areman named Wright, living near - Haffia, committed suicide by hanging in the presence of her child. The latter brought the father, who, on coming, cnt his throat beside the wife's body. ■ !j.ue man is likely to recover.

TUBERCULOSIS IN MILK. x Perth, July 15.

As a result of the application of the i tuberculine test, a wholesale slaughter of cows of the metropolitan dairies is t«li-itig place. Twenty were destroyed out of twenty-riine in one dairy, while in fimr other dairies forty-two animals ■were found unfit to supply milk for human consumption. ' TASMANIA!* POLITICS. Hobart, July 15. Mr. Nicholls, Leader of the Opposition, has tabled a no-confldcnee mo- ' fern on tie Address-in-Reply. LORD NORTHCOTE. Melbourne, July 15. lord Northcote was entertained at a faiawell dinner by the citizens. Tne ' Acting-Lord Mayor, who presided, said it was likely that within a brief time lord Northcote would be appointed Hisfe Commissioner for Australia TO Iradon: Lord Northcote, after replying to the .toast, received a tremendous oration. TRADE COMMISSIONER FROM BRITAIN. Melbourne, July 15. The Federal Premier, Mr. A. Deakin, has received a cable announcing that '' -tire Board of Trade in England has appointed Mr. C. Hamilton, the VicePresident of the Board, to be British , Trade Commissioner in Anstraljn. ' ■ THE 'AMERICAN FLEET. i Sydney, Julv 10. f' / Moner is not coming in freely toward? the citizens' fund for entertainfnjr the American fleet. There is likely to be a poor show as far as decorations are, concerned.

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