AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 15 April 1908, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] i A MURDERER ARRESTED. j ADELAIDE, April 14. j Coleman, who fatally shot a police- ! man a few weeks ago, was arrested yesterday near Morpeth Villa. He made no resistance. There was a I small wound in his arm, which, he j stated, he cut with glass, hoping to bleed to death. THE DROUGHT IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, April 14, The drought in the north-eastern districts is very severe. Many owners have been compelled to handfeed large numbers of stock, and many are being sent to other districts. * • VICTORIA'S STOCK. MELBOURNE, April 14. The stock, returns show the number of horses in the State to be 424,648: tattle 1,842,805; .sheep 14,116,734. In each case the figures are a record. Shoep increased by 1,209,000. CARTRIDGE-MAKING. '.MELBOURNE, April 14. The erection of a Federal smallarms factory at Lithgow will be commenced at once. The estimated cost " is £70,000. " ''LAWN TENNIS. ' MELBOURNE, April 13. Brookes is unable to visit England" this year to defend the title of tennis champion of All England and the world's championship. SUCCESSFUL BURGLING, SYDNEY April 14. Burglars dynamited the safe in the Cboma railway station, and; secured £149 FAREWELL TO AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, April 14. . Commissioner McKie, head of the Salvation1 has received General Booth's instructions to say farewell to Australia. - A sailor with small-pox. THURSDAY ISLAND, April 14. The steamer AldeMham has arrived from China with a' Chinese member of the crew suffering from small-pox. TASMANIAN HOPS. HOBART, April 14. The efforts of buyers to. "bear" the price of Australian hops all round are resented by Ideal growers, who intend to ask the Commonwealth Government to increase the import duty by a shilling per pound.