AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 224, 21 September 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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<SYDNEY, Sept. 21.

H.M.S,s 3%ssehe and Pioneer ba^q! returned foam with ja#iw \ A TOY SPRING. MDNEY, Sept. 21. The prolougefl $vy weather is causing much uneasinjiss. In many parts »of the State «a*>ps?and stock are su£{fering from a of water. The supporters <<tf fthe nineteen-year .^ycle theory claim tfjjiat Australia is paring the end «ff ;& =cycle, and that! j^srt year will bristg tfenndant rain. DEADLY HEMLOCK. SYKOTf, Sept. 21. *&&> children have 4&gl at Orange an<3 (f»ne at Victoria ifsmai .eating the beasSf&k plant. BUSH FIRS. BRISBANE, <&jpt. 21. En©i«a^is bush fires 'have been burning for days in the tfie>-nty of Norman jßjs;er. Heavy losses (0 stock are. feared.

UNREMt TSERATIVE MIMfG

HOB ART, Sept. £1. Owing to the unremuneratiT* *price to which copper %as fallen, the Motmt Blocks mlmi has been ptfatf&Jclosed.

SUSPECTED OF MURDEKV MELBOURNE, Sept. 21. lv& suspects have been arrested in <eonn«stion with the murder of Wendell a& Kangaroo Flat.

THE ANTRACTIC EXPEDITION

SYDNEY, Sept. 21. Lieutenant Shackleton, the leader of the Antarctic expedition, advises that the Nimrod is unable to call at Sydney en route to New Zealand, as suggested, but will call when returning from the .antarctic expedition.

AUSTRALIAN LEATHER. SYDNEY, sept 21

A report shows that the imports of Australian leather into South Africa increased in value from £26,700 in J904 1# £58,000 last year.

CABLE NEWS.'

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