AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 347, 24 March 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE SYDNEY SHOW. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received March 23 s 8.45 p.m. Sydney. Last Night. Lord Chelmsford (Governor oi jMew; South Wales) officially opened the Ag-1 ricultural Show. The Premier (Mr Wade), in a speech, said that in 1902 the value of New South Wales production was four millions. Last year it i rose to ten millions. j Received March 23. 11.30 p.m. j Additional awards at the Sydney Show were as follows: —Shire stallions, three years old, the Jmv Zealand-bred Brilliant Boy was adjudged first, but a pro--1 test was entered that he was not actively engaged in farm work. Clydesdale stallion, New Zealand-bred Lord Kyle second, Lord O'Neill (another New Zealand horse) third. In butter, the Kyogle Dairy Company won t'he £IOO Challenge Cup presented "by the Salt Union of England.

WRECK OF THE PORT JACKSON. ; Received March -23. 8.45 p.m. j Sydney, March 23. 1 The Marine. Court found the wreck of the tag Port Jackson on February 12 was due to a flaw in the machinery causing the breakdown, exonerated the j captain from all bzlame, and complimented him ilpon the good seamanship in getting the vessel to land. A MELBOURNE SUICIDE. ' Melbourne, Last Night. Reginald Tuckett, a member of the auctioneering tirm of Gemmell and Tuckett. committed suicide by shooting himself to-day. He had been in illhealth for s'ome time. RETURNED UNOPPOSED. Received March 3, 10.30 p.m. {Sydney, Last Night. K*nrslev a IL/abiowr representative, was elected unopposed for Northumberland, Vice Charlton, who" resigned in order to become a candidate for the Federal election. STRACH AN-HER ALD LIBEL CASE. Received March 23, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. Counsel for Strachan, who is bringing an action for libel against the Sydney Hera]<7. pleaded that the paper had done nothing more than putilish a controversy between Strachan and Count Inner. German "Resident at the New Hebrides, which Straehan provoked, if the statements" were libellous, it w*as purely a technical libel. MEDALS FOR COLONIAL SOLDIERS. Sydney. March 23. The Defence Department has been notified 'bliat the King [has lapproivied of a general medal for long service and good conduct in the permanent forces in the Empire beyond the seas.

VICTORIAN WHEAT YIELD. Melbourne, March> 23. The Victorian wheat y : eld is 27.180.000 bushels, the highest aggregate yet iiavvcs'ted in the State.