AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 353, 2 April 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received April 1, 10.10 p.m. Melbourne, Last Night.

The tender of the Australian Wireless Company, Limited, has been accepted for the construction of wireless stations at Sydney and Fremantle at a cost of £4150 per station. Five tenders were received for the work. The tender accepted gives the system endorsed by the Admiralty. The stations are to be completed within twelve months. The range of communication will be 1250 miles in daytime. The range will probably be double that distance at night.

THE OTWAY'S PASSENGERS.

Received April 1, 10 p.m. Melbourne, April 1,

Walker, the smallpox patient, is dead. A child two years of age in the third class has developed the disease.

QUEENSLAND REVENUE.

Received April 1, 10.10 p.m. Brisbane, April 1

The revenue for nine months' exceeds that of the same period of the previous year by £134,891.

VICTORIAN REVENUE.

Received April 1, 11.50 p.m. Melbourne, April 1,

The revenue for the past nine months shows an increase of £414,310, compared with the corresponding period last year.

A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION. Received April 1, 8.50 .\).m. Sydney, Last Night. ■Wright, who was injured in th> Broken Hill explosion, is dead. [Wright Avas the proprietor of a bakery which on 20th March was wrecked by a mysterious explosion. He and his son were seriously injured.]

CONSUMPTION NOTIFIABLE.

Sydney, April 1,

The Government is considering the question of making consumption a notifiable disease.

FEDERAL FINANCES.

Sydney, April 1,

The Chamber of Commerce discussed the financial agreement between the State* and the Commonwealth and the transference of State debts. Tn regard to the former question it voted "Ye=." and on the transference question "No."

MOTHER AND SON DROWNED.

(Sydney, April 1,

Whilst a mother and son named Reece were getting water at Molong their cart tipped, and both were drowned in the creek.

A BRAVE, BOY.

Melbourne, April 1

A 'bov named Fnrce, on making a brave attempt to save, a companion, fell into the Yarra. Both were drowned.

SPURIOUS SOVEREIGNS,

Melbourne, April I. An unusually large number of spurt ous sovereigns are circulating.

THE MALEKULA OVERDUE

Sydney, April 1

Fears are entertained for the safety of the Island' schooner Malekula, which left the Solomon Islands for Sydney on New Year's Day. Under ordinary conditions the voyage occupies three or four weeks. She carried several white officers and a native crew. AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL. Sydney, April 1. At the Axemen's Carnival Miley, of Victoria, on scratch, won the. big event —the Cup Handicap, 15-inch log—in lmin 17see. Johnson, of New Zealand, who was allowed five seconds, was second.

THE OTYVAY'S PASSENGERS. Perth, April 1. Another of the Otway's quarantined passengers has developed suspicions symptoms. SYDNEY HOTELS. Sydnev, April 1. The conference of the Licensed Victuallers' Association recommends closing all hotels and liars on Good Friday and Christmas Day.