AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 5 March 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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THE QUEENSLAND METHODISTS

BRISBANE, March 4. The Rev. Mr Warham has been elected president of the Methodist Conference. , POSTAL DISORGANISATION. • MELBOURNE, March 4. The postal estimates for the coming year make largely-increased provision for Temedying the present disorganised state of the postal, and telegraphic .services. , THE LADY MILDRED WRECK. MELBOURNE, March 4. At the inquiry into the wreck of the Lady Mildred, the captain attributed the? loss of the vessel to the bad peering qualities of the steamer and the want of fog signals at Wilson's Promontory. NO WEAPONS. SYDNEY, March 4. _ At 'a meeting of the Rifle Association last night, 'strong complaints were made of the scan-city of rifles. It was stated that over twenty clubs recently formed could not be supplied with rifles, stocks of which were completely exhausted. MAORILAND'S DRINK BILL. SYDNEY, March 4. The Daily Telegraphy commenting on the New Zealand drink bill, says that doubtless the figures would have been bigger still had there been no temperance wave; but it was to have been expected that the reform agitation would have brought them below what they actually are.