AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 261, 28 October 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

L.UUUKJiXS' BitI'TALITY, lteeeived 28, Uaju a.m. .Sidney, October 27. lhrce larrikins were to-day sentenced to four, six, and seven years' reeneotnely lor kicking a foreign seaman insensible. The unfortunate man was unconscious for a month. When he had recovered lie had k.,t his reason and i*> now oujiiiiß»u to an asylum. -V AIL'UUKKJEH EXECUTED. Keceived 28, 0,55 a.m. Eremantle, October 27. Oki, a native ui' .Japan, was to-day executed l<ir the imirder of Shaw a settler. Oil August 23rd. ' SUXSJIIXG TRAJX DISASTER. Melbourne, October 27. A "nolle prosequi'' litis liven entered in the ease in which StatiunmastoKcndall was charged with manslaughter in connection wiii the Sunshine railway disaster. -MJvLISOI IiXE-SHAXGHAI SKItVIOE. -Melbourne, October 27. Tile State Government has approved the subsidising of a direct monthly steamer service from Melbourne to Shanghai. The subsidy is to be £3OOO IH'l- annum, lialf to be paid by Victoria and half by X'ew South Wales. TAS.MAXJAX CABLE HATES. Melbourne, (Mobcr 27. As a result ot the recent legal action the Federal Executive has reduced the rate on Tasmanian cables charged over and above the Commonwealth rate by the Eastern Extension Company from '/ s d to %<!.