AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 321, 12 January 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT YIELD. Sydney, January 11. The Government Statistician's revised estimate of the wheat yield is 15,731,000 bushels, the average being 12.1 i bushels i>er acre. The probable exportable surplus is four million bushels. VESSEL STRICKEN WITH MALARIA. Sydney, January 11. The schooner Eugenie, from th Solomon Islands, has reached Cape Hawk'c. Captain Cordon is dead, and jnalaria] fever is rife on the vessel. The mate Anderson, die only other white man .aboard, sueeiHubeJ to fever jind the effects of a very rough passage after getting in a crew of Islanders untouched with fever. A BUSH MURDER. Sydney, January 11. The young man Williams has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering Johnston, whose body was found at Nani"i I (In the particulars of the. tragedy cabled nn Deccmlwr 2.1, evidence showed that Williams sold a horse's outfit with which he and the dead man had previously travelled). • MARINE DANCER. •Melbourne. January 11. i Whilst en route from flreymouth to Melbourne, the steamer Ennerdale struck a sunken obstruction in Bass I iStraits cm Wednesday night and received damage causing a slight leak. | The extent of the damage will he unI known until the vessel is docked, fMi'iiiriiiiiiiiifiiriliri