AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 184, 8 September 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

*■ ■ :il -\ Received 6, 0,85 aa. «7} i Mr. Wm. Kidston, ex-Premier. mim« , the election campaign at fiwddunnw! , He said it was unnecessary tn nJfflMjji i the Government's programme, the same that was submitted ago. The keynote vat niaterial VttijfJ tional and social progress. HaHaSra ! terued the alliance of the OpMWbSF! : with the Labor Party at most wS&IJ hopeless and helpless lolttst tMllfefl duct of publio business was OtaMMt&r He considered the financial: arjjtl£**''4 ments with the Commonwealth rtHMft lair compromise. #a'i „CROP PBOSPBOIB.' : % Beeeived7. 11.40 p* . - ,\T >, Sydney, SentemWl.l Soaking rain has fallen for thtJMt i few days and crop prospect* art gttmf * RECONSTRUCTION OP A BJoM\' ■ Received 7, 11.10 p-m. . ;apV. . l %dney,Bept«ittb«txk.;, An extraordinary general atetSfivl the Australian Joint Stock VtO^W proved the directors' .scheme tolSSp ' struct as contained in a regent ANKIt CHECKING MANIPULATION OF #•'' BUTTER MAREDT. 'ft ~ Received 7. 11.40 p^V^tJfi'is .„ , J*y dne yi6«pt«ril>|iilii. -. A conference of TepretentativM flflff. J> operative butter factories rescind if " regard to export, "with a view to An*,.' mg the manipulation of the butter a»r.' ; , Ket by speculators. ■

VICTIMISING POSTAL DEPARTMENT. : _ , Perth, September '7. Barker, an official i B the engineers* branch of the Post Office, has been arrested on a charge of victimising the * Department of £I4OO by the •yitematie forgery of requisitiontior material (or bogus contracts and the forgery of oertincates for work .done.

A TRAGIC AFFAIR, . t Sydney, September T. A girl named Lundie, 13 year* old. • * «]>ot her father dead near BreldwooJ. Her father, it seems, bad threatened * hw wife. The girl secured a gun, and raising the sash of her father'* be* room window, shot him. She hat been arrested. ■

Brisbane's ropnas. Brisbane, September 7. . The Municipal Council celebrated the jubilee of the city. A demonstration held at the exhibition buildings was at- "<S tended by 2000 persons. The ,Hm «& cabled congratulating the city on thS Si occasion of its jubilee and' within* ft ,11 future prosperity. ffl