AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14326, 23 March 1910, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

~.,. . v .......... ..,., _ , r '<■ By Tolegrapb.—Presi: As*oclßtlon:r-Copyrigbl. A CASE OF SMALLPOX. ■ . • (Received March 22, 9 p..m.) ~ . • , ■" • . ,- -' Fkemantle, March 22. The steamer Otway arrived from England . ' ' to-day " with a "case. of- - smallpox: aboard. I-. The patient is a boy m the third-class. ' the; WARATAH PTQTHEY: ,:},,.,,; - "- (Received 7 March 22,' 9.50 p.m.) I - Sydney, March 22. Under the British Board of Trade's di- ,'. rection the Department of Navigation has . ! opened an inquiry in connection .with the i disappearance of the Waratah. Evidence I will be taken at the other" Australian, portr ; I where the Waratah called; and -copies • for • }." I warded to the Board of Trade. ; ! ' i ■■ | THE KAKAPO'S MISHAP.: : (Received March 23, iya.m.) -* i [ '•,"-.., Sydney, March", 22. The Union.CompanyV steamer iKakapo, which went ashore in a fog off Devonpoii | (Tasmania), has arrived* ami I .will be docked for sighting. • It, is understood she is undamaged.' ['[' .', ' ;'\ ,'V* ' NEWS BY 1 _ . Sydney, ' March 22. ~; During the .voyage"'of '.the sis.'-Makura-... •-■• from Vancouver a daily-paper, was published for fortnight,' giving %'irelt*n news ' from Vancouver: «■ " , , • .rr-r-FATAL SNAKE-BITE. ."■; ■'■ ' ;.. Me'lboubn-k, March.22. Two fatal cases of shake-bite in the country are reported. Both victims were young children. . ;*i"j n '•••■■■'." ' , — liS - • AEROPLANE FLIGHTS. - Melbourne, March 22.: . . { Houdini, a music hall performer,. made I another flight in his Voisin biplane yesterday, and covered six miles in 5m."37* THE \ FITZROY ~ EXPLOSION Melbourne, March 22. v; The noise of the Fitzroy explosion wa/. . ' • ; " heard for several miles. A column of varicoloured flame shot in the air to an.; .; estimated height of 100 ft. ." Iron veran- - dah pillars were; twisted and thrown v „ < across the street, while debris of all descript was thrown on to the roofs of - adjoining premises. ; Two' little boys in -j the same loom flora, which the gill at * . precipitated -: had /a v; perilous ii experience. - , The portion of- the, floor on which the bod stood remained attached to; ' the •"•.walls,- .'. | and the 'lads awoke to' find themselves"'oil {\ the edge of a precipice. The light from the flames enabled them to creep into tt .'c,.; 1 . "'; r m "'»'•< - "O, '- " *"*'i