AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15257, 18 March 1910, Page 8

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Eleotria Telegraph—Copyright A WINDFALL. SYDNEY, March 17. Mr Marshall, a working man atLitligow, has come into for a windfall. His uncle, late senior member of Marshall, Stewart and Company, shipbuilders, Glasgow, made him -the chief beneficiary in a property valued at £40,000. PRESENTATION TO CARDINAL MORAN. (Received March 17, 10.30 p.m.) Tho Roman Catholio laity presented Cardinal Moran with £2500, in recognition of his services and t-o mark his silver jubilee in Australia. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. MELBOURNE, March 17. The Australian Natives’ Association has adopted a resolution in favour of the Government’s defence policy, but against borrowing the money to carry out the proposals. It also recommended the establishment of an Australian Navy League. LABOUR LEADER’S CONFIDENCE. BRISBANE, March 17. Speaking at Maryborough, Air Fisher prophesied that lie would soon be leading a Labour Ministry. BUSH TRAGEDIES. PERTH, March 17. Tn-o well-known graziers of the Wyndham district have died under peculiar circumstances. One of them, John Mackenzie, shot himself while drawing a revolver from his saddlebag. The other, Samuel Muggleston, was found unconscious on a bush track and succumbed.