AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 53, 11 June 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SAMUEL HORDERX'S ESTATE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Received June 10, 0.35 a.m. Sydney, Last Night. A cheque for £294,087' has been handed to the Treasury in respect to .probate duty on the late Samuel Howlern's estate. I A DOCTOR ACQUITTED. Perth, June 10. Dr. Bowker has been acquitted on the charge of having made a false statement in connection with the late outbreak of smallpox on the steamer Otway. KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. Melbourne, June 10. The Lord Mayor presided at a representative meeting in the Town Hall, aiid it was decided to open a King Edward memorial fund, to be devoted to the completion of the Children's Hospital, at an estimated cost of £20,000. | THE COMING FUEL. Melbourne, June 10. The Government has let a contract to the Asiatic Petroleum Company, for about £3OOO, for a supply of oil fuel to bring out the destroyers Yarra and Parramatta. LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Melbourne, June 10. The State Government proposes to revoke the reservation of education en : dowment lands, totalling over 20,000 acres, making a large area available for settlement. DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK. Sydney. Jinie 10. Diphtheria in a mild form is preTOlent throughout the State. Doctors are | unable to explain the widespread diffn-1 si on of the germ. I

THE LAND ACT. Sydney. June 10. Pionpp.r settlers in district aTP jrreatly dissatisfied with the working of tlie Land Act. An open-air nicotine publicly burned the Aet with groans and hisses. A WESTRALTAX RYE-ELECTION. Perth. .Time 10. The bve-elot'tion at Vivmantlo to till t.he seat of the Into "Mr. Price resulted in a Ministerialist, retaining the seat. ATTEMPT TO DERAIL A TRAIN'. Melbourne .limp 10. A deliliprate atterrmt wrw'mfide to derail a train on Clifton Hill. On o*ie rail a niece of iron, nnd oil til" other n piece of hardwood, \verpearefu!lv fixed to fit, into the joints between +'<e two rp»K the idpa being that +V of th'> train should run mi the vp<!«ps nn.? 'lrop off. The weight of t!ie onsrhp. however, displaced the wed<»e«. Had the attempt nroved successful. the train would have dropped over i 20ft. embankment; on to the bouses below.