AUSTRALIAN NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14912, 10 February 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Ej? TflfsT*r>-l > KW AiSKifckUoß.-arrtivjirfJt, ' •< ■ i m ,< I '/ i ! ..■.}•: DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. • (Received February 9,' 6.10 p.m.) ■ , A fire destroyed the top floor of the Bulletin office, containing valuable etc"jh>g" ' and photographic plant. The damage is estimated at £'5000. ' . : ; A. later estimate of the damage done by" the • Mungindi fire reduces it to £15,000, - ,' M.Bi.BOtrRNE, February 9. A fire at Gisbornc, 42 miles by rail from',: V'll Melbourne, destroyed the churn factory' ■ and did damage estimated at £5000. > " ~ /-.",■, ,-v-., ?r RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sidney, Fehrnary 9. ,-.■ Cooler and ■ showery weather is general, ' and there have been soma good falls of', >■. ram . , < ■ . ,< ■>~.• .i '/ .. - . — ;■ " ..:'.;' THE LATE HE. JUSTICE COHEN. , ffieceived February 9. 11.35 p.m.) : : ; : V., 1 Stdnet, February 9. The remains of the into Mr. , Justice , Cohen were, hud at rest to-day. : ' , \ , _■ ' - ,t, ' ■ , »,'■ <' •' J ' |t> >> '! CO-OPERATIVE ''\ ; RAILWAY WORKS. Sthnet, February 9. The chief railway construction engineeri .' j Bails for New Zealand to-morrow to in-- '' quire into the New Zealand method of 1 co-operative ■ work on, railway. ■■ construe- ■•' tion. - • ' •■'■•' ;-" *<'' ■ .' . ■"' '■'' 'V* ■' i"' -' - 'm , ';i : -it i ■...'... .■■: .. •• -.::'■ ?!.f!| ANS-OONTINENTAL; „ ' RAILWAY, •■•■ ■ - Melbourne, February 9.' ' 1 With regard to the- cabled statement a,6< , to the mission .to Australia of Mr.' J.., Norton Griffiths (Unionist member of thai ; S House of Commons and a big railway) contractor), the _ 'Minister for Home Affairs ,i Mr. King O'Malley, saya that Mr.j Griffiths's visit will be fruitless, and thai ; Government will itself build the trail** 1 continental railway. fA, London ; cablegram published yester-t day, stated that Mr J. Norton Griffiths, "is visiting Australia in connection with., his offer to construct the Australian trans-, I continental railway at- 7$ per cent, ovei'i I cost." Mr, Griffiths is managing director, of Griffiths and Company, contractors, and. I is president of the Norton Griffiths Steel 1 Construction and Contracting Companion' of Canada He is -also president of Grif-' fiths and Company, Australia, Africa, and) Russia. During the Boer war he was] ' . captain and' adjutant, of Lord: Roberta's 1 ■ Bodyguard ; Headquarter'; Staff. Trior ..<>! that' he bad served in the. Matabele war. 1 ;i i : -, • J . < "i'.