AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1128, 8 March 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

><V ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (deceived March 8, 11.20 a.m.) . MONSOONAL RAIN. Sydney, March 8. A moDsoonal rainstorm has been in operation for the last few days over Australia. It is one of the most extensive on record. Three stations in South Australia received five inches of rain, one in Victoria- over five niches, and fifteen in Queensland over an inch and one nearly seven inches. THE WIRELESS WONDER, „,, , Sydney, March 8. JJie Makura, on her last voyage, maintained simultaneously "wireless communication with Cape Hattery, 13A2 miles distant, and Honolulu, 000 miles distant. She also communicated with Vancouver, 2900 miles away. THE UNION S.S. COMKEffY. Sir James Milk states that, consequent on the loss of the Waikare, the Union Company will "build .another vesel of the Marama type. The Aorangi is to be thoroughly overhauled and held as a reserve ship. The coal strike cost the Union Company between £40,000 and £50,000 tor additional'coal supplies. THE DAVIS CUP. No challenge lias yet been received irom the JBntish Isles in connection with the Davis Cup. THE MINER. Tihe Broken Hill combined unions propose a week's general strike throughout Australia as a protest against Premier Wade's legMatioa