AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11546, 31 March 1903, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. . CYCLING IN ADELAIDE. ADELAIDE, March 30. Chambers and Forbes, the New Zealanders, have qualified for the final of the Wheel Race, to bo run next Saturday. THE ARLTUNGA GOLD MINES. The improved tone in Arltunga gold shares is owing to more favourable reports from some mines. THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS. BRISBANE, March 30. The latest news from Townsville is to the effect that the flood waters are eub-sid-inj;. DEPORTATION OF THE KANAKA. MELBOURNE, March 30. Sir E. Barton repudiates the suggestion tliat the Kanakas deported from Quieensland will be killed, couked, and eaten by their, fellows in the Islands. Every precaution ■will be taken, hu tsnys, and if there is any danger to Kanakas who are returned to one particular island, they will be taken to another. AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS. SYDNEY, March 30. Colclough, the Queensland swimmer, has withdrawn liis protest against Hamilton, the New Zealander, in connection with the recent Plunging Championship. The grounds of the protest wae that Hamilton was over his time limit. THREE YOUNG LADIES DROWNED. The Misses Clapperton (2), of Brooking station, in the Wagga district, and Miss Gray, of Kentucky station, weie bathing in the Murrumbi-rfge-e. Miss Gray got out of her depth, and the two Misses Clapperton went to h*r assistance, with the result that all three were drowned. A LIBEL CASE. (Received March 30th, 9.35 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March 30Mr F. Bromley, the teader of the Labour party, was awarded £500 damages against M. Brodzky, proprietor of the newspaper "Table Talk," for a libellous statement pubLUhed in the defendant* capex-