AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

' t \ (PREBB ASSOCIATION.] ■THE CO&GROVE TRAa&DY. '7.:] MELBOURNE, Jan. 3. .Willie Olugston,' who,' with three ".' 'tSftier1-children, was shot by bis mother ■■• et -Cqsgrqr#, *s dead. Only one child now survives. A PROVIDENTIAL THUNDER- " ■* .: T' STORM. ••• ,;• ■■.■•■' ■■•;■• ' SYDNEY., Jan. 3. A heavy thirtiderstoritt ha«s given a jniQ'iiph's water supply to Broken Hill, ivfiich was 'tin*the-.verge of a water ■|sfmsie.-» ■ * --' ' ■ fSfW SQtTTH VfALBS FINANCE. - ■ „' ;•' .-. -BYDNEI^ Jan.. 3. ..: ',!SFh,e"Treasurer, previewing the year's wor^v,. said he had no doubt'that the forecast given when be delivered the JBudget would Ije more than realised, '«n<s.that, there:'.would'ls&. «■ vary substantial surplus. Last' month's- accounts show a decrease on railways .and tramways of £47,000;/ : . ; , . ■ ■: '.A' MENAGE m,SJfIKfING. J ' HOBARTj^an. 3. > ;^> n vincharted:r rock .'lias %aen distjcv.sred1 \vhere the Piapaauf struck. • It p covered by 10 feet of w&fcer, and w~#s 4»- miles off Waterhouse Island. It is Avo'nderful that'it was ri<:>s ■-•Jbefjbve, fts.it is ..in fhe direct recite of vessels./"' ■";■ ; '':••'