AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11790, 13 January 1904, Page 8

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE KENSINGTON FIRE, MELBOURNE, January 12. T%a loss, including wheat and stock, by Kempton's fire, amounted to £35,000. It was fully insured. Fifty men were thrown idls. A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST. ADELAIDE, January 12. Mr J. Darling, a prominent authority, estimates that South Australia's wheat crop will total 14,400,000 bushels, an average of 8 bushels per acre. The surplus available for export will amount to 300,000 tons. AN EXECUTION. PERTH, January 12. • A man named. A. H. Hook was executed for murdering a Japanese and two Chinese at Carnarvon in August. Death was instantaneous. BREAD IN MELBOURNE. (Received January 12th, 10.11 p.m.) MELBOURNE, January 12. The price of the 41b loaf has been reduced to 54d. BEQUESTS TO CHARITIES. (Received January 13th, 1.39 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 12." Under tlie will of the late Mr Felton, sf Felton and Grimwade, wholesale chemists, £450,000 is left to Victorian charitable institutions and the Art Gallery. THE EXPLOSION ON THE WALLAROO. (Received January 13th, 1.19 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 12. Sandow, one of the stokers injured in the explosion on EH. M.S. Wallaroo, is dead. GOLD IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, January 12. [The Victorians output last year was 767,351 ounces of fine gold, which is 44,686 ounces above the previous year. The value ia £3,259,482. The Himalaya to-day took a shipment of specie valued at £464,000.