AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8933, 27 June 1905, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 26, 8.52 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 24. Mr Carruthers states that the end of the financial year wil show nob only £300,000 paid off the public debt, but also a handsome surplus. MELBOURNE, Jmic 24, The Hon. G. H. Reid states that everything poseiblc is being done to 'secure tho defences being in mi efficient state. The Council of Defence is formulating a scheme for submission to the Government. The forces are fully equipped with small arni6, and the reserve of arms, ammunition, and supplies 16 in a satisfactory condition. The rearming of the field artillery is proceeding. Fixed .defences at Freemiint'le. are provided for. (Received June. 26, 9.49 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 26. Everything indicates that the. plague outbreak is thoroughly mastered, bul the destruction of rats vigorously carotin lies. Ra,bbi Cohen, has been inducted Chief Rabbi of the Great. Synagogue. The Commonwealth *Im invited Miss Roosevelt, ami Mr Taft, Secretary for War, to fxterid their forthcoming visit to the East to Australia.

BRISBANE, June 26. Obituary.— A. C. Gregory, ex-Sircveyor-Gcueral awl explorer ; aetat 87.