AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 140, 11 June 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] GOING AGAIN. (Received June 11, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY,-June 10. After three months'; suspension for repairs the Lithgow blast-furnaces have re-started. ARCHBISHOPRIC ACCEPTED. SYDNEY, June 10. Archdeacon Wright has accepted the Archbishopric of* Sydney. He will be consecrated in St. Paul's, London. :';' TASMANIAN POLITICS. HOBART, June 10. The Anti-Socialist caucus elected Sir Elliott Lewis leader > and gave him a free hand in the selection of a Ministry. The present Government will resign in a few days, as soon as the business is cleared up. ANXIOUS TO REACH THE POLE. PERTH, June 10. Mr Alexander Mac Donald, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, has left for England with the object of organising a South Polar expedition. He proposes to force through ■on Lieut. ' Shackleton's route, using dog teams for the final dash to the pole. DALEY'S TURN. SYDNEY, June 10. Daley, who was charged with at- j tempting to extort money from W. N. Willis, was acquitted. • SYDNEY, June 11. | Daley has issued a writ against W. i N. Willis, claiming £2000 damages for j alleged malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. HEAVY RAIN. SYDNEY, June 11. General heavy rain has fallen. Eight inches are recorded at Eden. j UNIVERSITY REFORM. SYDNEY, June 11. The committee appointed by the University Senate to report on the question of reform proved abortive, owing to the divergency of views of the members, and the matter has been referred back to the Senate. A THIEF FOUND OUT. MELBOURNE, June 11. Recently a new arrival from New Zealand, while staying in the Melbourne Cafe, was robbed of his portmanteau, which, among other property, contained a bank-book for £1200 in the New South Wales savings bank. A man trying to work one of the accounts was arrested yesterday in Sydney, and all? the missing property was recovered. EXPLOITING THE ISLANDS. MELBOURNE, June 11. A powerful company has been formed in London to work the rubber! plantations in Papua. It has secured ' 10,000 acres at Collingwood Bay. i Great progress is also, being made in; commercial development; in the Solo- j mons. Land is being largely: taken s up, chiefly for cocoanut growing. THE CHICAGO MENACE. MELBOURNE, June 11. The Attorney-General, referring to the possibility of the Chicago meat! trust exploiting Australia, did not wish to say to what extent th^y could deal with the trust till inw facts were obtained. The Anti-Trust Bill,, he said, was directed against combina-' j tions injurious to the public, and he • thought that the' Government ,could face the situation;