AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 85, 27 August 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. By Cable.—Press Association.—-Copyright Sydney, August 26. Mrs. Baker has died at Grayton at the age of 102. She was the'mother of fourteen children, and there are ten surviving. The eldest , living is 81 years of age. His youngest son is ,55, and is a grandfather, so that up to the time of Mrs. Baker's death then- were five generations of the Bakers alive AMERICAN CROOKS.

Sydney, August 2G. The police state that numbers oE swell American crooks have arrived and are 'operating in Sydney. Two have been arrested and gent hack, and two others have been warned to leave Hip country AUSTRALIAN NATIVES Perth, Avr'it 20. Dr. Mjoberg, leader of hi year's Swedish scientific expedition ; n NorthWest Australia, has rettirnnl to continue his researches in Qm-cii-lnntl and New Guinea. He declares thai the Australian aborigines are descendants of a tribe from India, and they arc typical of the ancestors of the human race. THE SYDNEY TRAMWAYS. Sydney, An'.rust 26. The tramway men's eanipa'i'n against footboard riding continues. 'l'lie service has been considerably S laved. The police observo a neutral attitude. RESULTS OF W*T\'lY. Sydney, Aiianst 2(5.

A youth named Evans, 'i-i-oil l>y his companions, who were all to jump from the Pyrmout bridge, leaped into the water and was .Ipi'viV'd. A COFFIN tTNEAirnim Sydney. .V..rr*t 20. During demolition work a!, the corner of Clarence and York sleets a coffin containing a few bones was unearthed at a depth of six feet. In l lie early days a military hospital o a the site. ' Mi