AUSTRALIAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 April 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

[I'KH I'IIKSH ASSOCIATION—-COI'TBIOHT.] Ki-o-ivcd tl'is da' at 10 10 • r. GOYFRXMEN'i '" ' KA ' '""• \ |.| I \ JOK. Tlii !':>' I "till : return., ,-u-mii. tin deieat of (l» »:■■ eminent. LOCAL OPTION. \DELAIDE. This Hay. Only Wallaroo in the local option vote declared for closing a third of the hotels Other districts by big majorities left things as they are. CABLE BROKEN'. LAL'NCESTON, This -Day.--«'ne of the two new cables coi ctiitjj la* mania with the mainland is bmlcn. WATER WANTED LAUNCESTON, This Day.—Ml Bischoff Milne has shut down for want of water. This is the first lime that (he mine has been closed for 37 .years. The weather continues very dry aiid all mining districts badly want water

EARTH TREMORS. PERTH, April 6. Several earth tremors were registered, at the Observatorv ebtween the 31st .March and Ist April. EROM COLLISION. SYDNEY, April 6.—Two crowded trams collided in Cleveland street and five passengers were rather severely injured. FEDERAL ELECTORS. MELBOURNE, April 6.—The total number of electors on the Federal roll for the forthcoming elections is 259,891. FEDERAL OBSERVATORY. MELBOURNE, April 6.—The first official building proposed to be erected on the Federal Capital Site is an Observatory on Mount Stronbo-.v, 2600 feet aboev sea level. The Government is considering the erection of a temporary observatory pending the completion of the permanent one SMALL-POX OUTBREAK. SYDNEY, April 6.—Three more of the Otway's third-class passengers have developed suspicious symptoms. It is stated that the two patients, who succumbed to small-pox in Melbourne, refused vaccination at Perth. FREMANTLE, April 6.—A thirdclass passenger by the Omrah, a boy from India, is suffering from an undefined disease. Small pox is suspected and the patient has been Isolahd__