AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 20, 24 January 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

fPRESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received January 24, 10 20 a.m.) THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Parliament meets on 20th February. MARINE ENQUIRY. HOBART, This Day. j Tho Marine Board found that the barque Edenholme, which was wrecked a fortnight ago on a. submerged reef three miles off Tamar Heads, was lost through J want of judgment on tko part of the pilot, Mulloy. His certificate was suspended for cix month?. | CYCLONE AT COOKTOWN. i BRISBANE, This Day. | Many persons v> ho^e residences at Cook- j town were destroyed lost everything. Numbers of people- were cut by flying iron. A pilot ketch which was attending to the beacons at the time the storm occurred has not since been heard of. THE PLAGUE. BRISBANE, This Day. A case of plague is repoiied from Sand..gale, twelve miles no?th of Brisbane,, and j two cases in the New Farm suburb. PROPOSED SYDNEY EXHIBITION. SYDNEY, This Day. The Sydney Morning Herald throws coW water on the Sydney Exhibition proposal, while tho Daily Telegraph thinks it commendable and opportune. CHANGES IN THE FEDERAL CABINET. MELBOURNE, 23rd January. Mr. T. T. Ewing, Minister of Home Affairs in the Federal Cabinet, has been appointed to the portfolio of Defence, rendered vacant by Senator PL-iyford's defeat at the general election last month. Mr- Keating, hitherto a Minister without portfolio, becomes Minister of Home Affairs. (Received January 24, 10.26 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Maugher, honorary Minister, will represent tho Home Department in the House. RAILWAY COMMISSIONER APPOINTEDSYDNEY, 23rd January. The Chief Commissioner of Railways has been selected in England. His name, as well as those of the Assistant Commissioners, is withheld for the present.' (Received January 24, 10-8 a.m.) SYDNEY, 23rd January. It is stated that Mr. C. H. Dent, general manager of the Great Southern and Western Ruilway of Ireland, 's the new Chief Commissioner of Railways.