AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14980, 28 April 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE NEW TASMANIAN CABLE. MELBOURNE, April 26. The new cable between Australia and Tasmania will bo operated from midnight on Friday. Satisfactory trials have been made. COTTON. A company is being formed to promote cotton-growirig in North-western Australia. It is proposed to utilise Hindu and Malay labour. A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. TKe Minister of Lands has embodied the conclusions he has formed on his visit to New Zealand in a report to the Cabinet. He was very much impressed with the manner in which tho Labour Bureau worked in New Zealand and thinks that the principle might very well be adopted in Victoria. He denies stating in New Zealand that the Victorian Government intended to introduce a graduated land tax next session. THE BRAYBROOK DISASTER. MELBOURNE,- April 27. Th'e Commission rejected of Milburn, driver of the Bendigo train, Against the finding of the Departmental Board, resulting in his dismissal, but modified the finding in tho case of the Braybrook stationmaster, and decided to reinstate him in the service in a purely clerical position. A LOVE TRAGEDY. HOBART, April 26. At the inquest touching the death of the girl Langdale evidence was <riven that she and Attwell went to the river intending to drown themselves together. They sat for hours waiting for the darkneee, but the moon did not go down. (A young girl in a tit of despair over opposition to her marriage committed suicide by taking strychnine. Her lover, a man named Attwell, on learning of her death, poisoned himself.)