CABLE BREVITIES.
Inquiry has disclosed that the recent explosion at the Nyngan (N.S.W.) refreshment rooms was 1 caused by some gelignite which workmen had placed in a basket ■ and forgotten about. Newspapers favourably criticise Haddon Chambers’ comedy “The Passer-by,” which has been produced at Wyndham’s Theatre, London.
A cyclonic storms is raging at i Cooktown, with heavy rain andj high seas. Shipping is held up, | and the river is flooding. i * At Melbourne, the report of the, Administrator of Papua for the! * year ended June 30th shows that, the progress of the territory was! steady and satisfactory. The white i population increased from 690 Io! 879. The native labourers en: t »ioy-; ed increased from 2000 to 3532. i The time was not far off /hen the | territory would be able to meet r 11’ financial obligations without lhe Commonwealth subsidy. ; Mr. Richard Sleath, ex-member; of the Legislative Assembly, was ; awarded £lOO damages for libel against the “ Sydney Morning Herald.” The alleged libel consisted in the publication in the-report of ’ a public meeting of certain statements which the plaintiff detii?d ' making.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 92, 31 March 1911, Page 8
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