AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
ELECTRIFICATION OF RAILWAYS. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright, Sydney, September 14. The Royal Commission on the metropolitan traffic reported in favor of the electrification of the suburban railways and tramways by a scheme to involve an outlay of over five million. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Melbourne, September 14. The next Federal Estimates will include a large sum for wireless telegraphy. RIFLE CLUBS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, September 14. Of 13,108 members* of New South Wales civilian rifle clubs the musketry courses proved 12,315, or 94 per cent., were efficient. SALVAGE FROM A WRECK. Sydney, September 14. The captain of the steamer Knight of St. George, which was wrecked on a reef off Nukualofa, writing to the agents in September, states that he will save £IO,OOO worth of cargo. If the weather holds good he will probably land all the general cargo within a week. He attributes the disaster to volcanic disturbances causing a tidal wave, which set the vessel nine miles out and ahead of her course in an hour and a half.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 15 September 1911, Page 2
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172AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 15 September 1911, Page 2
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