AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 364, 15 April 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MIX IMB AH SAILOR DROWNED. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. ; Received April 14, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. One of the Minimbah's crew was drowned thiough the upsetting of a boat while waiving passengers' luggage. A GREAT FIRE. Received April 14, 11.5 p.m. Melbourne, April 14. The captain of the AVaipon has reported that a great fire is sweeping over a 'big island in the Kent group. In Bass Straits he saw the glare for eighty miles. BROTHERLY LOVE. A ballot of wharf laborers endorsed the decision not to work timber, i'i sympathy witli the timber yard strikers. NEW SOUTH WALES BYE-ELECTION. Sydney, April 13. The State bye-election for Darling Harbour to replace Mr. John Norton, who is a candidate for the Federal Senate, resulted in the return of Mr. Cochrane, secretary of the Labor Council,! by an overwhelming majority. ANOTHER SMALLPOX PATIENT, j Sydney, April 14. A man who is reported to lie an Otway passenger, has been admitted to Sydney Hospital suffering lrom a suspicious disease. The doctor declared it was not smallpox, but strict precautions are being taken pending further diagnosis. Later.—The suspicious case in Sydney Hospital has been diagnosed as smallpox. The patient has been removed to quarantine. THE COUNTESS OF RANFURLY WRECK. .Sydney, April 14. Details of the wreck of the s'chooner Countess of Ranfurly show that she struck a reef 200 miles from the Isle of Pines during thick weather and became a complete wreck. The crew took to the boats. The captain and a number of hands in a whaleboat reached Noumea after being afloat five days. They suffered many privations. A DISHONEST POLITICIAN. Perth, April 14. Hopkins, member of the Assembly for Beverley, was Sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a charge of forging and uttering a promissory note for £542. UNDERWRITERS DESERT MINIMBAH. Sydney, April 14. ■ The underwriters have abandoned the Minimbah, the back of which was broken at the Manning River bar.