AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 189, 31 July 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

HEAVY RAIN IX N.S.W. Received 31, 0.50 a.m. Sydney, July 3U. Heavy rain is again falling. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN AGENTGENERAL. Received 30, 10 p.m. Adelaide, July 'JO. In tan Assembly the Premier announced that the Government had accepted the resignation of "Mr. Jenkins, Agent-General.

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. Sydney, July 30. The censure motion proposed by Mr. MeCowan was negatived by 48 votes to 30. The Address-in-Reply was Wien carried. DISCOVERY 01-' COAL. Melbourne July 30. An important discovery of anthracite coal has been made near Mirboo. An i outcrop revcaU a seam 2ft 3in thick, ATHOLWOOD TO RE RELEASED. ] Melbourne, July 30. Alholwood, the actor, who was senfenced to six months' imprisonment lor bigamy, will be released to-morrow owing" to ill-health. RECORD RAINFALL. "~Rvdnev. July 30. The weather has 'cleaved In the past two days 8.23 inches of rain e.ll —the greatest quantity that has fallen ] in the time since 1880.

INQUIRING INTO A MEAT COMUIXK Perth, .July 30. Owiii" to a combine controlling the State',Vat »upnly tl«™ uaa bev,,i a 'rise in price,. The Government a appointed a Royal Commission to deal with the matter.

THE J'liU'K OK lUTTKI!.

Sydney July :ir>. The price of l'»'f<"- <>" "''' 'T 1 ' """'; k.-t I,»< advanced 12i P»r ™t. in -4 ('„„(. and nn increase in 1 !_•«' '!"■»«' > j„ ,-nld storage i« antiunion of tlu i demands of the American fleet.