AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 February 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW SOUTH WALES' LOAN. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAFII—COFYKIOIIT. «:i£ UNITED tUESS ASSOCIATION. Received February 24. 10 a.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 24. .Mr T. A. Coglan, Agent-General, cables that the unrest iu Eastern Europe is affocting the public subscription to the New South Wales loan. WHO IS TO BLAME? Received February 24, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 21. With lelereuco to the complaints of alleged short-weight coal shipments Irom Newcastle shippers state that the railway weighbridge is mainly to blame, but the Railway Department denies this find assert that the weighbridge Is tested weekly. MATCH FACTORY IN .MELBOURNE Received February 24, 10.20 a.m. MELBOURNE. Feb. 21. The English firm of Bryant and May intend to establish a wooden match factory iu Melbourne, and expect to commence operations at the end of the year.

THEFT OF JEWELLERY. Received February 21, 10.20 a.m. PERTH, Feb. 24. A pawnbroker's shop occupied by a man named Rusenwax has been burglariously entered, £BOO worth of .jewellery being stolen. CABLES TO TASMANIA. . Received Februarv 21, 10.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 24. Two new Tasmania!! cables have been successfully laid. HEAT IN MELBOURNE. Received February 21, 10.20 a.m MELBOURNE, Feb. 21. The hottest day of the season was experienced yesterday, the. temperature in the city reaching IDSdeg. VICTORIAN POLITICS. Received Februarv 21. 10.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 24. The State Governor (Sir Thomas Carmieltael) lias furnished part of his reason for granting .Sir Thomas Bent (the late Premier) a dissolution. He was convinced that neither the Leader ol the. Labor party nor the Hon. J Murray could form a Ministry' of real stability, and there was nothing to lead hint to think that Mr Murray, ralhet than Sir Thomas Bent, should appeal If the country, while the debate and motion of censure indicated that there was ,i possibility that the House desired i change.of Premier ratjier than a change of policy.