AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15715, 7 September 1911, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

United Pres? Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copvrivht. CORDITE FACTORY. MELBOURNE, September 6. Tho Government cordito factory at Maribyrnong lias been comnieted. SUBDJ EIIGED VOLCANO. (Received September (5, 11.25 a.in.) . Admiral King-llall announces that the warship Torch lias reported an active submerged volcano in latitude 20deg 50; 11 in south, longitude ITodeg 83mm west. The' minimum depth of water is fifty fathoms. .It is believed that tlie volcano is on a submerged island near . Tqngalabu, sixty miles south-south-vest of tho Friendly Islands.

THO BUSH Tit ABUTH. PERTH, September 6.

Smith, tho bushman who was charged with tlio murder on June 2-5 of his mates M ake and Butler in the bush, was tried to-day. Tho Judge directed tho jury to find a verdict of not guilty, and committed Smith to an asylum. The evidence shewed that Smith was liable to epileptic storms.