AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 205, 18 January 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

j FISII KILLED BY HEAT. j By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. ) Sydney, January 17. 1, Numbers of dead fish are floating on | Will in "ah Lake, near Termeil. Thcv j have been killed by the beat of the { water during the hot weather. ! THE DESTROYER PARRAMATTA. I -Sydney, January 17. J The destroyer Parramatta at her trial j did 27.8 knots per hour, j RABBIT-TRAPPERS' WAGES. I Sydney, Janaury 17. I The rabbit-trappers have accepted the price offered for large rabbits, pending | a conference, hut will not deal with lowI er grade rabbits. ! "THE EARLDOM OF LINDSAY. Melbourne, Janaury 17. Mr. Bethume Lindsay, formerly a station overseer, residing at. Albert Park, claims to be the rightful Earl of Lindsay. head of the famous Scottish family.' i He declares he is identical with Henry i James Hamilton, who is stated in Burke's Peerage to have been horn in | 1834 and to have died at Marseilles in i ISO2. The present earl is a cousin of' | the claimant. Tn 1010 Lindsay married the widow of John Close, of South I Africa. He sails in March to claim the Earldom. 1 A QUICK PASSAT! E. Sydney, Janaury 17. The Nippon Yusen steamer Kaisha has i reduced the time of the vovage from Sydney to Yokohama to thirty days, a ; reduction of two days.