AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15374, 8 August 1913, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.' '■.-■' ' ■■■■■■•■■-■:■..■■. >■■■,-- ■ ?■:■■■ i'.)!.;."i'r OPPORTUNITIES FOR SETTLERS. By Telegraph— Association—Copyright. ... ' Pout Dabwin, August 7. ■■■■'■■ The Railway Commission has returned here from, a tour of the country- between the Roper River and Pine Creek. It.reports .that an I enormous area; is available for sheep. . This country offers a healthy residence, and with railways the future of the Northern Territory ispoetically at- ' SUred ' ' " ■•-■/■'■ TEE SMALLPOX SOAKS. . V I 1 • « '248 PERSONS IN QUARANTINE. . • (Received August 8, 12.40 *.m.) Sydney, August 7, ; , The steamer Warilda, which was laid up owing to the falling off in traffic follow-, ing. the smallpox epidemic, is now'being. _ ! > i-(-commissioned. Owing to the ; discovery ~. of a case oj smallpox in the Sydney "Hos- • pital, only vaccinated visitors or others where the cases are urgent are being admitted. Seven cases are reported from the metropolitan area to-day, including a Maori who . ' caught the infection in Sydney, and tW/'.V.v' at Ulmtrra in a family where one member V" ■ ■ had already been attacked. There are 248 patients and contacts, in V.' quarantine. A total of 434 .'has been; at-V;.ij tacked since the outbreak commenced. . ■■■'■ -• ■■-.•". ±-yi--i~ ■■■■:'y• ■:;vr-':V\---K ; '-\ " '■•• ■•.!.,, - : ,■- VISION OF THJI'PUTUJtS. ■■;..'•■- ■ ■■'■' -.„? •'?'•. '".:. : -„ -:' BULK HANDLING OF. JViUSAT Sydney, August 7 • < , The , report of Mr. Niels Nielsen (exMinister for Lands), who has been acting as a special commissioner in the ..United '.•■■/.;■'■; States for the past year, was tabled in' thel-'V-', House of Assembly yesterday. Mr. Niel- ' ' eon strongly recommends the bulk hand— ling of wheat on the American system. : >a The ex-Minister stated that he, could ' ; 'se©;V:Vi Australia becoming the great' •' -wheat-•''."/" producing country in: the •world if the scientific methods of agriculture practised si) successfully in the United States -were' •''' adopted. r WIRELESS prom samoa: (Eeceived August 8, 12.40 a.m.> '•. . ' Sydney, August 7, .■■;': - The wireless station at Apia (Samoa) is expected to be working this month over " ... a range of probably 2000 aulas. • _' - . ' - ' . ••' • CATHOLICS IN POLITICS. . SYDXhY, August 7. ■ Archbishop Kelly, " referring to * statement : regarding Catholics and politics ' made" by the Rev. M. J. O'Eeiliy, president of , St- Stanislaus" , ivliege, remarked, at a.' meeting '„• last night :"You set our house on fire -by. your educational .system anci you' force every Catholic to fight for his -own, if ■ not behind the guns, at least at the ballot box. Take away these restrictions, .-"and the Catholic Federation will be T just as non-political as the Temperance Society.'* SYDNEY HORSE SALES. , - (Eeceived August 7, 9.10 p.m.) , - * , Sydney, August 7. The Sydney horse-sales were continued to-day. ;; : • The thoroughbred Cymbiform, , bred in New Zealand, * was sold: on 'account of Messrs. Freeman Brothers, of Waimate, '/■ for lOOgns. •■•; The i trotting - ( stallion Ghosi, : on account of Mr. Francis : Quin, of Wai«-' kato, also brought 1 lOOgns. - FINANCIAL deficit. (Received August 7. 9.10 p.m.) , : , . Sydney, August 7'. : The deficit in the New South Wales ' financial year is £1,509,000, which is £500,000 over the first estimate. SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.. (Eeceived August 7. 9.10 p.m.) : Sydney, August 7. A sad tragedy occurred " ; to-day ■; at '.'■•■•■:■ Woolloomooloo, William Joseph Donne being shot dead by his wife. - The couple had been living apart for the past few days. To-day Mrs. Donne west to the shop where Donne was employed as a butcher's salesman., . The couple were ;'•.! talking together quietly outside, when suddenly a shot was fired and Donne fell down, expiring immediately. His'wife has been charged with murder. At present nobody has been found who actually ■".'• saw the shot fired. * 1