AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 230, 27 September 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

TWO SHIPS OR ONE 1 (Received 9.15 a.m.)

SYDNEY, this day

The discovery of a number of tins of kerosene near South Solitary Island lias again revived the suggestion that the Rosedale may have collided with another vessel.

A LTJCKY ESCAPE.

(Received 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The barque. Helen Denny had a stormy trip across the Tasman Sea. A seaman named Ball was washed overboard, but managed to regain the deck. RIFLE MEETING. (Received 0.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Entries for the Rifle Association's annual meeting total 1500, the prize money being £SOOO. PRISON REFORM. SYDNEY, September 26.

The Attorney-General for New South Wales (Mr. Holman) has selected a site at Tuncurry for prisoners' tree-planting camps. The Minister proposes to have 1000 acres cleared immediately, in order to allow the- work -of tree-planting to proceed. Prisoners in the camp will be allowed to earn money and a remission of sentences. They will also bo taught scientific farming, to enable them to take up land at the conclusion of their sentences. KILLED IN A MINE. PERTH, September 26. Some staging collapsed at Chaffer's mine to-day, and Thomas Denman was killed, and George McCleod seriously injured. DOMINION DAY IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, September 26. The New Zealand Association celebrated Dominion Day with a brilliant ball, there b«i.ng a -large attendance of visiting New -Zealanders. New Zealand vessels in tho harbour were decked with bunting.