AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13647, 15 January 1908, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.— Association.--Copyright. ■;-.■. REDUCED WHEAT YIELD. (Received January 15, 1.8 a.m.) ' Sydney, January 14. The official estimate of the wheat haf» vest is 8,686,000 bushels, the average being 6.2. The previous season's wheat yield amounted to 21,818,000 bushels. There will be a shortage of over 2,000,000 bushels for local consumption. ANOTHER CASE OF PLAGUE. (Received January 15, 1.8 a.m.) Sydney, January 14. Another case of plague has occurred id the city, the victim being a storcman working in a warehouse in York-street. DEATH FROM ANTHRAX. Sydney, January 14. A farmer at Jlaitland was attacked by anthrax after skinning a cow. He died to great agony. FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, January 14. Heavy rain* and floods continue in thft north portion of the Ayr. The Bower lines are under water, and traffic has bce> suspended, ■ *-~-. THE NEW HEBRIDES. * Sydney, January 14. Captain E. G. Rasotf, the retiring Resident Deputy British Commissioner at the New Hebrides, who has arrived iu Sydney from Auckland, declares that the New Anglo-French convention at the New Hebrides will work wonders, for while formerly everything was chaos, the future will be law and order.. Matters are ahead J most peaceful and quiet under the new order of things, and will probably remain so, it being 'unlikely that any more objection .to the convention would bo heard -