AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 152, 14 November 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE BOOTH MEMORIAL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, November 13. The Booth Memorial will be a home for the needy working men, accommodating seven hundred, and costing £20,000. BLOOD STOCK SALES. Melbourne, November 13. At the blood stock sales the New Zealand-bred Blackpool (by Birkenhead) ) fetched 330 guineas, and Tenterhook (by I Clanranald) 190 guineas. Shuja (by Soult-Sprite) was passed in at 375 guineas. ' J STEAMER PASSENGER'S SUICIDE, j ! Sydney, November 13. | j A steerage passenger who joined the ■ Moeraki at Wellington is stated to have I .leapt overboard on Sunday. His name I is believed to have been W. Wooden- ! son. It is stated that a Greek passen- J I ger, not speaking English, excitedly drew j ) a deck hand's attention to some thing. )in the water astern. He was thought to j j mean that some baggage was overboard, j but an hour later an interpreter discover-1 j ed that the Greek declared that he had | j seen a passenger climb on to a rail and i j jump overboard. I

OVERSEAS CLUB ORGANISER. j Fremantle, November 13. j Evelyne French, organiser of the Over- ] seas C-iub, has arrived from England. He jis bound for Wellington, where he be--1 gins propaganda work. 1 THE DEATH OF A PUGILIST. j Melbourne, November 13. .Taylor, the West Australian pugilist who was arrested on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of McCarthy after a boxing contest on ! November 4, has been discharged. NEW CALERONIA. Sydney, November 13. New Caledonia reports a severe drought. Cattle are suffering from the I scarcity of food and water. Great ravages have been made on the coffee plantations by a disease named hemilla vastarix. ...