AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINISTRY. Perth, February 16. Mr. 0. J. Moran joins the State Cabinet as Minister for Railways. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Melbourne, February 16. Edward Nash has been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife at Richmond in December. AUSTRALIAN WIDOWS' FUND. Melbourne, February 16. The report of the Australian Widows' Fund shows that the new business for the year totalled £6,379.627; and the premium revenue was £167,000. The report foreshadowed a satisfactory bonus for the quinquennium, terminating in October next. THE CABLE QUESTION. Melbourne. February 16. The Postmaster-General is in communication with the Queensland and New Zealand Governments, with the view of forwarding a combined message to the Pacific Cable Board, suggesting that a joint purse undertaking should be entered into between it and the Eastern Extension Company. Mr. Gurr states that if the total receipts of the Australasian traffic were pooled in this way the Pacific Board would receive one-fourth and the Eastern Extension Company threefourths of the revenue, which he thinks should prove satisfactory to both. The Age says that by the refusal of the Government to accept the Eastern Extension Company's contract the colony has been penalised to the extent of over £50.000 per annum by having to pay the old cable charges. Already one agency is doing a large business by sending cables to Sydney and Adelaide, whence they a.re redirected to London. Another agency is being formed. FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Sydney, February 16. The Federal Cabinet has authorised the issue of writs for holding the Queensland Federal, elections on March 30. The dates for the other colonics have not yet been fixed. Sydney, February 17. It is probable that the West Australian Federal elections will be held on the same day as the Queensland elections, and in the other States on March 29. A QUEENSLAND ELECTION. Brisbane, February 17. Mr. Barnes, a Ministerialist, has been returned for Butumindo, the scat rendered vacant by the death of Sir James Dickson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11579, 18 February 1901, Page 5
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