AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 245, 9 October 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• I SUCCESSFUL PATENT. " lieecived 8, 1),35 .p.m. Sydney, Last Night. 1 A very satisfactory trial of a ship's \ course deviation recorder was made

i aboard the llaheuo from Wellington bv the inventors, Messrs. liussell and Heiinah. The apparatus evoked great interest among the quartermasters, who vied one with another in the record of steeling capabilities as indicated by the apparatus. J A NEW ZEALAND ATHLETE. Received 8, 1).,'J0 p.m. Sydney, Last Night'.. <.uy ltaskms, „ New Zealand athlete-, arrived by the .Manuka, and proceeds to New Zealand on Saturdav A HUtiE WHALE. Sydney, October 8. A whale 07 feet long lias been killed at. Twofold Bav. INTERSTATE JEALOUSY. .Melbourne, October 8. Tn discussing the second reading of the Stamp Act Amendment Bill in the Victorian Parliament, several members strongly criticised the undercutting lie- | tweeu State and .State, The Bill, it was said, had been forced on Victoria by the action of New South Wales ill abolishing stump duties, and so giving Sydney business men an undue advantage over Victorian trades. The trend of the debate was not calculated to dispel the jcalousv between the two Statts. SELECTION OF GOVERNORS. Adelaide, October 8. The Council carried a motion disapproving of the despatch sent by the Premier iu August last, suggesting th.it State Governors should bo tjelcctecl locally.