AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9540, 17 June 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Br ELBOTBIO TBLEGIU.'H--Comiß[lT.l (Pjb Pbess Aksociation.): . • SYDNEY, June 16. ' ' In the Assembly Mr' Wood moved' an adjournment to protest against the motion of tho Government granting civil servants threo days' holiday for the Coronation. The motion was negatived, only, five supporting it. Tho Paci(iquo:.was docked arid, her stern frame fractured and rudder post bent. .- Nino plates require removing. . The Now Zealand footballers, remained aboard tho Wimmera, having arrived 'too late to land to-night. . Tho Bellanibi has arrived, front' llokiangn, and encountered fierce south-wester-' ly gales throughout. She was compelled to shelter a day under Lord Ilowe Island, where the captain landed...; Tho islanders there reported tho heaviest; gales for years,'. Part of tho foreshore was: washed xaway. A quantity of Oregon timber drifted ashore on tho-island. V BRISBANE, Juno 16 Tho Government is granting remissions of sentences for tho Coronation: . e Tho Queensland grain ? crop , for lblU is as follows :-Maizo, .180,862 acres, 4 460,306 bushels, a record; wheat; 10b, aa acres 1,022,375 bushels;' barley, malting, 3,272' acres, 52,506 bushels;;' oats/v 2,537 acres, 52.506 bushels. . MELBOURNE,'June 16. * Two men, Webber and- McNichol, were crushed to death by a fall of .rock at tho Glenbrook railway deviation-works; "■■. The Seismograph observatory . recorded several earthquakes in the early ..morning, the shakes lusted from 12.37 to 1;53. They were considered to bo a s great distanco. from Australia. >