AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
PROCLAIMED A CITY.
SYDNEY, August 3. Broken Hill has been proclaimed a city. BUILDING BOOM IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, August 3. There is a prospect of a building boom in Sydney. Works at present in charge of the Government Architect's Department will cost nearly two million pounds, and the Federal Government erects large stores at a cost of £30,000. QUIRINDI TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, August 3. The police are baffled in regard to the Quirindi tragedy. No trace of Tafft has been discovered. -INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. SYDNEY, August 3. The influenza epidemic in the city is subsiding. THE, BOUNTIES BILL. MELBOURNE, August 3. The Federal Bounties Bill was read a third time. The amount appropriated for bounties was reduced from £530,000 to £412,500 by the omission of items.
NAVAL AGREEMENT. MELBOURNE, August 3. Sir W. Lyne, in the Federal House, cleverly parried questions regarding the Government's intenions with regard to the naval agreement. THE HORSE SALES. MELBOURNE, August 3. At the horse sales, the New Zealand horse Lord Delaval brought 170 guineas. ROBBERY ON A STEAMER. BRISBANE, August 3. On arrival of a steamer it was dif=cove:ed that a case containing Treasury note forms had baen pillaged, and two bundles, each containing a thousand notes, are missing. Being unsigned, they are valueless.
AN INQUEST. Received August 4, 4.50 p.m. SYDNEY, August 4. At the inquest on the body of Siddel, the Wanganui publican who died on the voyage across from New Zealand to Sydney, the medical evidence showed that death was due to natural causes. A verdict was returned accordingly. A TRAGEDY. Received August 4, 4.50 p.m. SYDNEY, August 4. A tragedy occurred at Woy Woy. A boardinghonse-keeper, named Wilson, was shot dead by a visitor named Walter Fox, while sitting in a room. The mutive of the crime is a mystery. It is believed that Fox's mind is unhinged. FLOODS AT BROKEN HILL. SYDNEY, August 3. Good rains are almost genera). There are floods at Broken Hill.
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electiic Telegraph Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8503, 5 August 1907, Page 5
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334AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8503, 5 August 1907, Page 5
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