AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 94, 17 May 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

; TO TOL'l! AUSTRALIA. Received 1(1, 4,30 p.m. Sydney,-May 10. Forty Anerican cadets leave 'Frisco on Friday on a tour of Australia. They call at Auckland on June 14th. A YACHTING DISASTER. Received 17, II.JO a.m. .Melbourne, .May 1(1. The discovery, of the body of "one .if the members of the yacht 1-ilinn'-.' crew, 'five 'of whom have been missing since 'April 2">tli, confirms the worst fears. RESTRICTING CIGARETTE SMOKING Melbourne, May 15. The .Premier proposes' to introduce legislation to restrict cigarette smoking, lie declares it is becoming a nieaace to the community and is doing more harm than opium smoking. In 1007 Victoria produced nearly one inimlrcd and forty-seven million cigarettes, and in the previous year one hundred and thirty-one million. CHECKING I/VJTERIES. Melbourne, Mav 15. The Postal Department is clii-j'phiyi:ig much activity, in checking lotteries'and consultations. It is expected that large prohibitions will shortly be issued in respect of persons resident, in Tasmania.

A MAUI.NK INVENTION. ~,, „ Sydney, Mnv 15. I In- i'rasci-.luincaiix patent omir'f recorder mm trinl diir'mjf the voyage nf IW Mokuia, willi satisfactory re'suits. [Tliis instrument words oil papi'r tlic iwii'sc of 11 vessel, and rings a brt) if (lie stoeNinan deviates from a get course mure tlian a certain nunilior of points!. T|„, inventors are Messrs J. | and S. !•.. Fraser, engineers. Auckland, and Mr. dnmeaux. drmiglitsmaa at Messrs crater and Son's works.l ACCIDKXT TO ADMniAI, lIOSAXQCKT. TI . n Adelaide. Mav 1.1. His Excellency tin- liovcinor. Admiral liosano.net, was thrown from his hois'!' and received a severe linking, tile animal was frijrhlened hv a motor ear

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