AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Press Association ;] SYDNEY ROYAL SHOW;

SYDNEY, April 15. .liie; snow,concluded yesterday. The aggregate attendance for the eidht clays wa5;.'316,900, which is a record INTER-STATE BOWLING :.' .'- :; ■ BRISBANE, April 16. At bowls Queensland beat South Australia by_lo2 to 86.. New South Wales beat Tasmania by 95 to 85 Queensland-beat New South Wales by 106 to 88, and Victoria beat Tasmania by 117 to 63. TESTING LONGITUDE BY v v:- ;:; . wireless: ■'■ ■:■■■ ■.-/■ '!'"J^ v"''-::':i^Lß>6trßNE,r' April 16 . The ;New South Wales Observatory authorities have requested Mr Wynne to arrange for an exchange of wireless messages in order accurately to determine the longitudinal position of -1' Zealand. A similar exchange wxth Macquarie Island - proved that it was wrongly placed on the map INTERI-STATE BOWLING ' ■A* v i April 17. ; At; bowlsi o Queensland! '.-beat' TasIjuthAustraha % 114 to 83, Queens! and won the championship, Victoria thirl. Seo<?na "New South WaS