AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13202, 13 June 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.—Press . Association Copyright;'

THE SKULL, AND CROSSBONES. .Sydney, June 12. Mr. Hazeltox, formerly Deputy-Commis-sioner for the Solomon Islands, has begun an action .against the Grown for illegal the Colonics: —"Referring to your telegram and fined for flying the black flag with the skull and crossbones' on his schooner.

[In June last year Mr. Hazelton, then % trader, but formerly a. Deputy-Commission-er for the Solomon Islands, was fined £10 and ordered to proceed to Fiji at his own expense to spend three months in gaol there on the charge of trading in ' arms. The prosecutor and judge in the case was Mr. Arthur 01 ipliant, then Deputy-Com-missioner for: the Solomon Islands. The parties travelled , in the .same vessel to Brahe, and then on to Sydney, where Mr. Hazelton was again arrested on Mr. Oiiphant's warrant, The warrant eventually was quashed on appeal to the New South Wales Supreme Court. Whether the., ease mentioned in the cablegram is new or an outcome of the affair in June last year as not stated.]

. A MINER MUEDKRJiI). Perth, June 12. An old miner named McNa'ughtoii has been murdered in cold blond near Cue, cm the Murehison goldfield. He was shot four times. The object of the murderer was robbery. , THE PLAGUE. fSruxjcy, June 12. A case' of plague is reported from Waterloo. The patient is .•ratcatcher, at Blackwattle Bay.'-.-- .