AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE PERJURY TRIALS. By Cable.—Presis Association. —Copyright Melbourne, July 15. The seventh perjurer, Frederick Ballingall, was found guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment. A DASTARDLY ACT. Brisbane, July 15. There have been fifteen fires in cane fields at Mosman. Partly-burnt candies have been found, and incendiarism 1 is suspected. The damage is slight. SOUM AFRICAN AUTONOMY. • Melbourne, July 15. :

The FeJsraJJIWl-liaMlitlMs been inj vited to send a representative to the opening,.- of-,,the South African Union 1 Probably Mr. Fisher will. t,K BLUE'S'W MELBOURNE, i UTS n aoii-ms \'Melo6urhej l( 'July ''l& ■ • at l£s*| 0. foot. ~.£o yn[}Rl*oo3 : y!".0!K '>)l\ol> hti*| tadiK'rfqfwß "Jma tsMttlfiouTn«,o July 15. ''* Demetrius Morfesse, laborer^ : bout< attacked his wife with an axe, and then; cut his own thro^? £l fibt^'a?e i & a critical conditionM -jwiol'. juiao.. .1 '! fir?;"'? yd Jrvj: ,u<anfi'■ jriyrn- ■'■ '.' '

THE COUPON FRAUDS. Svdney, July 14. : In connection with "He 1 Eb-operative! Go'Mpdn'CoiHpA'rt'J^'frands, Hume (printer), and Flynn (a grocer) leommitted fqiy. trial,, pn of ..forging coupons, and Hume, Flynn and Taylor (a commercial traveller) for uttering the forged, coupons. S : m.il ■

[,,. M(;i , ri , rt l4M^g, t EET:UßXi?, I l ''Official fifjui'&s orth'e autuiriii lambing' on J 3se^ehr'bA lr !s't r tliere were. -12,860,6-20 fpjr t Jambjng. Lambs 1 boi;n„ff r ere J.Q,251,2QQ, giving,'an average pf §0 per Mil.> Owing' weatheri aiid'l£he:¥a"fffi*eb is protetoW thef-JBia-rkinginrilL reaAidnly 8,324,-