AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 22 June 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE SYDNEY MURDER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, June 21. i Mrs. Quartley was of eccentric habits, and is believed to have suffered from Teligious mania. When she surrendered to tiie police she said the devil had sacrificed the girl in order to prevent the ■world being destroyed. THE POTATO BLIGHT. Sydney, June 21. The Department of Agriculture proposes experimenting in connection with the potato blight. With a view of obtaining clean seed, a quantity of seed, potatoes is being obtained from China.] These will be distributed in several country centres, where experiments will be conducted under strict supervision. FEDERAL MILITARY OFFICERS. | Melbourne, June 21. , The Government is inviting applications for two directors of the Military College at salaries of £BOO and £7OO nespectively. AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENCE. Melbourne, June 21. Two of the stokers sent to bring out the destroyers have been recalled, as they declined to submit to Imperial naval regulations. '"*"' LORD PLUNKET'S VIEWS. Brisbane, June 21. •Lord Plunket, in an interview, said' he was pleased that Australia and New Zealand were to have a uniform system of defence, especially in the matter of compulsory training up to twenty-sivr years of age.