AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 4 March 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] OBITUARY.

SYDNEY, March 3. The death is announced of Captain rHixson, late president of the Marine Board, aged 76. FAILED TO PASS THE TEST. SYDNEY, March 3. Thirteen out of the fifteen Chinese mentioned yesterday were refused permission to land. A SERIOUS FIRE. MELBOURNE, March 3. Harrison Brothers' large store at Wangaratta was destroyed by fire last night. The damage amounts to £14,----000. NEW LINERS. SYDNEY, March 3. Advices have been received that two new Aberdeen liners of the Pericles type are to be built for the Australian trade. , / A TERRIFIC DOWNPOUR. PERTH, March 3. Torrential rain is reported from Northam. Four inches fell in twenty minutes. Several wash-outs occurred on the railway line. ORGANISED LABOUR. jluE-LBOURNE, March 3. The Amalgamated Miners' Association at Bendigo rejected the Trades Union Congress's resolution favouring whole labour organisations for Australasia.' COAL IN NEW GUINEA. SYDNEY, March 3. Mr Mackay states that the coal discoveries made by the expedition to Papua were practically inaccessible, but in time would prove of great A GOOD YEAR. SYDNEY, March 2. At the annual meeting of the Mutual Life and Citizens' Life Com-. pany to-day, the chairman stated that the results secured were the best on record. The number of new policies was 11,485, assuring £1,878,294; and the total number of policies in force -was 285,561, assuring £18,850,000.