AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 May 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MELBOURNE HARBOR. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Melbourne, "Slay 25. To allow the largest liners likely to visit Australia to enter Port Phillip, the channel to Port Melbourne is being deepened to 42 feet at low water at a cost of £50,000. A SMALLPOX CASE. Townsville, May 25. The steamer Yawata Maru' from Japan has arrived. A saloon passenger is suffering from smallpox. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS. Sydney, May 25. Judge Murray, in imposing the maximum sentences on two recent arrivals convicted of stealing, 1 hoped future immigrants would not include so many unsatisfactory people as had been coming lately. Six captains were fined a total of £I4OO for allowing prohibited immigrants to land. ' RECLAIMING THE LAND. Sydney, May 25. Since the present Government has been in office it has resumed 5V 2 miles of foreshore at a cost of £130,000.

A NEW ZEALAND ESTATE. Sydney, May 25. Probate has been granted of the will of Benjamin Buchanan, and the trustees were empowered to sell the property in Australia and New Zealand for the benefit of the widow. HEAVY DEFALCATIONS. . Sydney, May 25. 5 Hugh Jamieson, secretary of the Papuan Rubber Company, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing £273. There is a general shortage of kaOjVuO* THE NEW HEBRIDES. Melbourne, May 25. Mr. Fisher, referring to complaints about the dual control of the New Hebrides, said that -the Commonwealth should be given a hand. He would like to see an Australian nolicy covering the whole of the islands. He thought the New Hebrides might well be tinder Australian control.