AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 April 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

[by blkctric telegraph.-copyright]

(PBR PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Arrival of a Mission Schooner. Beceived this day at 10 a.m. Sydney, This Day. The Marist Mission schooner Eclipse arrived from the Solomons in charge of Father Bouillao and six Black bojs. Despite the bad weather and his first attempt at navigation, the Father managed to cover seventeen hundred mites in sixteen days. Queen Yictoria Memorial. Received this day, at 9 43 a m, Sydney, April 24. At a meeting of the committee of the Queen Victoria memorial which takes the shape of additions to the towe Alfred Hospital, three donations of £IOOO each, and one of £SOO were announced. The loss of the Federal. Melbourne, April 24. In connection with the loss of the Federal, the lighthouse keeper at Gabo states that on the afternoon when it is supposed she was lost the boat came so close to the lighthouse that he could have thro.vn a stone into the steamer. A man camped near Ham Head, tells similar stories. The theory is mooted that the Captain kept close in shore to avoid a big wave and struck a sunken rock and tliat the crew got into the boats which were swamped after launching. Arrival of Lady Lawley. Perth, This Day. Lady Lawley and her two children have arrived. State Elections. Thero are 152 candidates for the general elections for fifty seats in the State Parliament. It is predictcd'tbat Government will bo defeated. TheCensu3. Melbourne, April 24. The Census shows the population of Melbourne and suburbs to bo 493,956, an increase of 3,060 since 1891 census. By the natural increase at the rate of 15£ per thousand, it should have shown_ an increase of S3venty thousand during the decade, so that instead of an apparent increase thero has been a large decrease. In 1891 thero were about five thousand more males than females, while at present there is over seven thousand more females than males.