AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 231, 23 September 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A RECORD SURPLUS. Received 23, 0.47 a.m. Sydney, September 22. It is understood that when the State Treasurer makes his Budget statement on Thursday he will announce a record surplus. THE AEON UNDERWRITERS. Received 23, 0.47 a.m. Sydney, September 22. A meeting of the Aeon underwriters ■decided in view of the want of definite information as to the condition of tho wreck to defer action till the captaiu's report was received. A PIONEER STEAMER, Received 23, 0.47 a.m. Sydney, September 22. Tlie pioneer of the new line of cargo steamer, Clan Line, Glasgow, trading ■between Australia and British and tinental ports, arrived to-(lay 4 HERO-SUVA COLLISION. Received 22, 11.25 p.m. Sydney, September 22. The Court suspended for six months the certificates of Bjorkman, .master of the tug Hero, and Murphy, secoad officer of the steamer Suva. MINING FATALITY. Received 22, 11.25 p.m. Melbourne, September 22. A piece of falling wood at the Band and Loch mine knocked the manager I Mason) and a miner named Collins from tlhe 000 to 000 ft. level. Both were killed. MEDICAL CONGRESS. Melbourne, September 22. The Australasian Medical Congress will meet; here' on October 1!). Five hundred and fifty delegates from all parts of the Commonwealth mid New Zealand will take part. VICTORIAN POSTAL SERVICE. Melbourne, September 22. The Chief Clerk of the Melbourne l'o-.-.i Office, giving evidence before the Postal Commission, stated that' it would require an expenditure of £750,000 to place the Victorian postal 6er- I vice on a satisfactory basis. I