AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13725, 15 April 1908, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Br Telegraph.—Prcs* Association. —Copyright "BEARING" THE HOI' MARKET. Hon art, April 14. Tun efforts of buyers to " bear" the [trie* of Australian hops all round is minted bv local glowers, and they intend to ask the Commonwealth Government to increase ■%% the import duty by a shilling a pound. VICTORIAN DROUGHT. Mj-xiiock.sk. April 14. The drought in the north -eastern districts is very severe. Many owners are compelled to hand-feed large numbers of their stock, and send the remainder to other districts. The stock returns show that the number of horses in the State is 424,648, of cattle 1,842,805, and sheep 14,116,734, In each case the figures are a record. Sheep have increased by 1^209.000. SMALL ARMS FACTOR MkujoCknk, April 14. The erection of the Federal Small Arm* Factory at Lithgow, in New South Wale*; will be commenced at once. The optimaleu cost is £70,0C0. THE KARORI MISHAP, Sydney, April 14. '■■■ | The steamer Karon, which "met with I " s mishap eft" the Tasnuini.m coast, is expect* ed to reach Sydney on Thursday. A SAFE DYNAMITED. Sydney, April 14. Burglars dynamited the safe at. the Coy ma railway station last night, and secured the sum of £149, THE SALVATION ARMY. Sydney, April 14. Commissioner McKie, head of the Salvation Army in Australasia, has received General Booth's instructions to say farewell to this part of the world. SMALLPOX OUTBREAK. Thckswav Isund, April 14. The steamer Aldenliam has arrived here from China with a Chinese member of the crew suffering from smallpox. JHK ADELAIDE TRAGEDY. Adelaide, April 14. The fisliernuH James Albert Coleinaa, who .•hot a policeman named Albert- K. Ring, on Sunday week, in revenge iVr the constable locking him up oh a charge of drunkenness the previous day, has been arrested near Morphetviilc. He made no resistance. A wound was found on his arm, and he stated that h/ had made this with a piece of broken glass, in the hope of bleeding to death. [J»mw Albert € ; olem*u, a tisiierm.in, recently -hot Constable A. E. Ring, of Adelaide, ill revenge for being locked up on a charge of drunkenness. - 11 v := ■ .