AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 August 1911, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

« IABLE -PBEBS ASSOCIATION-^COPYBrGHT. SYDNEY, Aug. 17. For the first time in Australia wireless has been used to aid the police. The captain of the steamer Grantala informed the police; that a confidence trickster was aboard. The police met the boat on its arrival in Sydney, and arrested him.

Received Aug. 18, 10.45 a.m. Melbourne, Aug. is. Mr Fisher has appointed Sir George Reid to act on a joint committee to work out a scheme of inter-Imperial wireless telegraphy. He states that if the Government remains in power no> wireless stations in the world will be more powers! than the Australasian.

Dissensions have arisen in the State Ministerial party over the Preferential Voting Bill. There is a likelihood of an early general election.

LAUNCESTON. Aug. 18. The death is recorded of Mr Murray, local manager to the Union Steamship Co.