AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 131, 12 September 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

I ANOTHER RAILWAY SMASH. JBy Cable—Press t Received September 12, 1 a.m. Melbourne, September 12. i Another railway accident has occurred. at Ballarat. A timber truck was stand-' ing at an embankment, when an engine j [struck it violently, knocking it off thej line. The truck ploughed up the perma-] jnent way for forty yards and, turning j at right-angles, struck the Staw<4l| [train, smashing a carriage. The truck j j collapsed. There was great excitement,: but nobody was injured. i FLOODS IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, September 10. i There are floods in the Nathalia d:s-| trict. Many farms on which crops were destroyed last year, are again submerged. DREADNOUGHT FUND. Melbourne, September in. The Federal Minister has approved of the arrangement to spT.d ihirtyfive to forty thousand ste-lina of thsj Dreadnought Fund on a naval -qollege at Sydney. It is estimated that ihe Dreadnought Committee will' have £50,000 for a rural training co'lege for English youths, enabling them to handle 150 youths annually. The first batch of boys will be despatched this month. LORD DUDLEY, Melbourne, Sept?mber 10. Mr. Fisher, with the concurrence ol Lord Dudley, asserts emphatically that there is no foundation for the statement that there are strained rel iwns. ix'twein the Government and Lord Dudley; on the contrary they are most cordial. BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Adelaide, September 10. The Anglican Synod is starting aj strenuous campaign in favor of tl;: j Bible in the State schools. J I JUVENILE SUICIDE. Brisbane, September 10. A thirteen-year-old iboy committed suicide with cyanide.