AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 329, 22 January 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

; STILL THEY COME. '?' Received 21, 11.3 p.m. „„ , . . Hobart, January 21. 1 lie lonic sails at 10 a.in. on Friday (or Wellington. There are 18 Australiani passengers aud 701 are proceedine 'to New Zealand. b THE HE-CALLDD FRENCH CONSUL.. Melbourne, January. 21. M Maistre, French Consul, is proeeedmg to Paris to explain hi» position. WRECKED .VESSEL'S CARGO. Melbourne, January 21 . Urge quantifies of cango arc wash'mgashoit from the wreck of Fall» of iHalladale, including thousands of eases iiil kerosene. RAIN IN QUEENSLAND. Briitbajte, January 21. Good general mills arc falling. THE ZIGZAG RAILWAY ACCIDENT: _„ Sydney, January 21. three men named Bourke, Fowler, and fair Imve l*eu acquitted on a charge of manslaughter of Guard Costello i,i connection with the Zimug railway accident in the Blue Mountain, on December I). *

[A portion ol tt (!<'ods train broke, away on the Zigzag and ran backwards. It collided! with a goods train that was standing at Clarence .siding. The englm* and twenty-live trucks were dewiled and bndly smashed. Two guard*, an engine driver, and a passenger were injured , Costello subsequently expiring.] DEATH- OV A POLITICIAN', Brisbane, .lanuary 21. Mr. Uahy, Speaker of the Assembly, died suddenly from « rupture of a blood vessel in the stomach.