AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 169, 10 August 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

POTATOES CONDEMNED: PRICES HARDENING. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrlgat Received August t), 10.55 p.m. Sydney, August 1). lns]icctors today condemned several thousand lwgs of potatoes that wer'. il sensed. The Government issues a pro« rinnintion on Wednesday prohibiting the importation of Spanish' nnd Queensland potatoes, owing to the Irish blight in. those places. The price of Tasmania!! redskins jumped to .1!) per ton in Sydi'iy to-day. Some holders declined to do business even at that figure.

A KAiLWAY FATALITY. Mclhoiiru.', August (1.

A footballers' special train dashed into n buggy ul (ieelong, killing the occupants—n man named Favor aud a boy named Maurcr.

• EARTH TREMORS. Melbourne, August 0. ' .Seismograph records at the observatory dim-lose ' tl e fact that twenty distinct earth tvmcrs were experienced i.i Melbourne between 11.20 o'clock and JO o>lock "it the evening of duly 30, and a more pronounced shock on the morning oi August, 1,

THE POTATO BLIGHT. Perth, August 0.

The CoverumeiiL lias prohibited the importation of 'LiMiianiau am) Queensland potatoes oAving la the existence ol Irish Blight in thou,, States, Hoba'rt, August ft.

The Oov 'liiinent is pressing for New Zealand's reply to its request for the loan of the services of Mr. \V. T. Kirk, (tovrrmucnt Biologist, in connection with the potato disease,

QUEENSLAND SHEEP. Brisbane, August tl. The, sheep in Queensland number over forty millions, LOSS OF JEWELS. Sydney, August It. Mrs. Wiltshire, of Auckland, a passe/gcr bv the Mokola, reported the loss of |-\vellevv valued at over CIOOO. Th» valuables were picked in a strong trun't marked "Not rei|iiireil on the voyage," ninl it «;is not opened until after be-in,} removed to lur Sydney hotel. It is n.ifc known, whether the robbery was commilted at. Auckland or during tlic vo\age. The ]ioliee are investigating th 1 report. <