CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 277, 28 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN, NEWS. — . [BV WJ-OTBIO TM_WHAPH--OOI»TBICa_T.3 [PBB PRESS ASSOOt.YiUN.J (Received May 28th, 9.46 a.m.) FATAL GAS ESCAPE. (Received May 28th, 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, May 28. A woman named Eva Milieu, to- . gether with her mother, Mrs Moore, and her daughter Olga, were poisoned [ by an escape of gas in a room at Pad- , dington. Eva MiUen is dead, and . the others are in a critical condition. Mrs MiUen's husband is supposed to '. be in New Zealand. WHEAT FOR CHINA. s Adelaide, May 28. > The steamer Vermont has sailed for Hong Kong and Yokohama with 224,---000 bushels of wheat. This is the largest shipment from South Australia to the Far East. [THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. I Brisbane, May 28. p The Premiers' Conference has open- . ed, but proceedings are private. Mr i Kidston is presiding. THE CRUMPE MURDER. 5 Hobart, May 28. In connection with the Crumpe murder, it is significant that some time ago enquiries were made at a Registry office in the name of J. Langford, from Auckland, in regard . to the marriage of Moriarty. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT. Freemantle, May 28. Brakes failing, a tramcar left the , rails and dashed into a fence. A » man named Fallon was kUled, and > his wife, another passenger and the - motorman was injured, i CRICKET TROUBLE. Sydney, May 28. Mr • Trickett, President of the Cricket Association, submitted a ; proposal to lift the suspension off f certain players. The meeting de--3 cided to discuss the question in . camera, but Mr Trickett objected, | and forthwith resigned his presi- . dency. PLAGUE DEATH. The plague patient died in hospital. DROUGHT AT WAGGA. i Owing to draught in £he Wagga - district some flocks have been re--1 duced 50. per cent. Lambs and old ewes are being kiUed off through - shortness of feed. Many of the inland centres appear to be doomed to a disastrous winter (writes the New South Wales cor- " respondent of The Australasian). : With each succeeding week for two or three months past the reports from cutlying stations have been gradually foiebodmg evil, they announce definite instances of heavy mortality r among stock- An enormous stretch _ of countrv is le'ng thrown temporar--1 ily out o- use in consequence of tho . prolongel run of dry weather. The country west of a line from Gurida- ' gai, up through Cootamundra, Temora, Wyalong, and Forbes, is all suffering, and, in the absence of any pastural feed, stookownere aie being compelled to resort to artificial feed- > ing to save their lambing ewes. The ) position is all the more hopeless be- * cause of the season of the year. A large proportion of the area affected includes much of the choicest wheat land in the State, as .it takes ' in not only the whole of the River- } ira, but embraces a wide belt of country between Cootamundra and ' Wyalong, which, duifhg the last two or three years, has contributed largely to the total wheat erop. Tne stockowners' position is not as direI ful as that of the farmer, although > both are bad enough. The Railway . Ccmmissioners wisely yieldedat once to the request for the carriage of fodder at reduced rates, recognising, no doubt, that their interests were wrapped up in the interests of the stock-raisers; and that heavy losses - would mea-i diminished raUway re--1 turns. If feed can be obtained at reasonable prioes, and carried out west at cheap rates, the pastotalists may be able to carry on for a few months, without suffering absolutely ruinous losses; lut the farmer, un- | less he gets rain almost immediately, will be unable to sow much crop. In the southern Riverira land-holders are asking the Victorian Railways Commissioners to extend to them the same concessions granted in New 1 South Wales.