AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 1 November 1910, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE ULIMAROA. BY TELEGRAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION. (Received Nov. 1, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 1. The Huddart-Parker Company received a wireless message from the Ulimaroa. The vessel is 200 miles distant and should arrive this afternoon. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. SYDNEY, Nov. 1. A shock of earthquake, accompanied by pronounced rumbling, was felt at Goulbum on .Saturday. CRICKET. (Received Nov. 1, 10.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Nov. 1. Victoria are four for 250. Ransford 71, Armstrong 27, Kortlang (not out) 30. RECRUITS WANTED. MELBOURNE, Nov. 1. A difficulty has been experienced in obtaining men for the Royal Australian Artillery in Victoria and New South Wales, which are both below the recognised quota. MISCELLANEOUS. (Received Nov. 1, 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 31. Volney Davis, motor cyclist, has reached San Francisco, having travelled ten thousand miles to Atlantic coast and back. Ninety gates for the Panama Canal wi'l weigh 60,000 tons, and will cost over a million sterling. Many noted motorists are arriving at Atlanta, Georgia, to race for five thousand pounds' worth of prizes.

The paTlor-maid had been out for the day with her mother; and her mistress, asking where they had been, -was told, "Madame Tussaud's." "But you always go there," she remonstrated. "Why don't you take your mother somewhere else?" "Well, you see, ma'am," explained the domestic, "it's like this. Father being in the Chamber of Horrors, it's sort of 'omelike."