AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13374, 16 March 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegrraph—Copyright. SIR HARRY RAWSON. SYJ>XEi\ March 15. Sir Harry Rawson, after spending a few months in England, visits India, New Zealand, and other parts of the Empire. WONDERFUL CAVES. MELBOURNE, March lo._ A wonderful series of caverns have been discovered in the heart of Capo Patten, near Apollo Bay. The caves contain a fresh water lake, fed from an unknown source, a crystal chamber studded with stalactites and stalagmites, and a floor gleaming with crystals. AN ARREST. (Received March loth, 11.13 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 15. Jonathan Henderson, managing director of the Pacific Fisheries, Limited, has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to defraud, and liberated.on bail. THE WALLSEND. Tho steamer Wallse.nd sustained damage to her bottom to tfie extent of so vera i thousands of pounds. CONTEMPT OF COURT. MELBOURNE, March 15. The Rev. P. J. Murdoch, clerk of the. South Melbourne Presbytery, was committed to prison for oontoiirpt in refusing to produce a copy of a letter sent by the Presbytery to a defendant in tho action the Rev. Mr Ranald versus Robert Harper, member of tho House of Representatives. Mr Murdoch insisted that ho had sworn to keen all tho documents of tho Presbytery, and could not give them up without tho Presbytery's authority.