AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

— — j SMITIISONS GREETING AT PERTH. VICTORIA WINE PRODUCTION. I , MILLIONS OF GOSSAMER THREADS, j Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright j SYDNEY, May 25. j , (Receive-i May 25, at 10.25 a.m.) ! CV.ptain Barron, formerly well known in | the New Zealand trade, is dead. i The Government are converting the. architect's branch of the Works Depart- f ment into a building department. It. will ( control the construction of all Govcrnrneiit i buildings. I PERTH, May 25. j;. The thi'd death in connection with the t Gnalia accident is recorded—namely, an Italian miner named Bachillini. Tho con- I dJtion of another is serious. I Largo crowds were at tho station, and made a hostile demonstration agaiast J Smitlison, who has been arrested iu connection with the Woodlupine outrage. MELBOURNE, May 25. Owing to the ravages of phylloxera- the production of wine in Victoria has iaiicn " from 2,822,263 gallons in 1907 to 991,911 | I gallons lust year. ' ; The Federal Bank note issue has passed the six millions mark. There was an extraordinary phenomenon at Tallangatta. The atmosphere was full of millions of beautiful gossamer threads. | They wore so numerous as to cause incon- I F venienco. ITiey arc attributed to lxilloon '< spiders. i