AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 8 January 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PRESS .ASSOCIATION.] THE FEDERAL CABINET

'' (Received Jan. 8, 10.38 a.m.) .. . MELBOURNE, Jan. 8. Mr Hume Cook, Government Whip, has been' appointed Honorary Minister in the Federal Ministry. COAL FOR THE PHILIPPINES. ... SYDNEY, Jan. 7. The America^ Consul has received tender forms from his Government for 60,000- tons of best Newcastle coal, delivered at Manila. TOO MUCH AT A TIME. . ADELAIDE, Jan. 8. •Two children at Gankalila, aged 9 and 6, found a bottle of ■ whisky and drank the contents. The eldest died; the other is recovering.