AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8288, 17 September 1903, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

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Received September 17, at 9.40 a.m.

Sydney, 'September 17, The Treasurer denies the rumor that South Wales proposes to place half a million of the 4 per cent, loan on tho local nuu-kct, at tho end of the present month. The Admiral will sail his llagship to Sinw pore to-day.

During a drunken row among tho now of tho French barque St. Louis, a sail,,., named Duesoze fatally Nuibbed jumtli.-r sailor, Solieir, who was giving evident | H ,. fore a Select Committer inquiry into tho gambling evil.

A well-known turf agent lias estimated the Sydney bookmakers' annual turnover <>• £3,408,000. He advocates tho licen.simr 'J bookmakers and a 10 per cent, tax on tl K .j.. turnover.

Received September 17, at 9.44 a.m. Sydney, September 17 Heavy rain lus fallen in the Broken Hill district and the streets aro llooded, als.> tl„, creeks and banks. There has been a iineful fall over a largo portion of tins interim- and it is spreading to the coastal districts. Ham set in in Sydney last nightT and still con tinues.

Queensland reports good rain in the south eastern districts, and South Australia a verv heavy fall in tho far. north'.' Received September 17, at 10.31 a.m. , n , . Sydney, September 17. Tliero is a great in.llux of Christian H,,. deavourers to the animal interstate eonv.-n----tion and a .special (rain brought a numliufrom the Southern »Stato6.

Ihe Herald commenting on Mr Balfour says Ills speech next month may be intended to prepare the way for a more definite state, ment of the proposed policy of retaliation His notes may represent balloons sent ini to try the wind on such a ground. l'| l6 Standard says "Tho announced decision (l f the Cabinet may resolve. it.self into an ~|)'orf, to run in protection by a side door and tlm light for freetrade may only just bo begun .We are hopeful, however, that -Mr ,11a If, and Mr Chamberlain will realise the hopelessness of tho outlook and will not ho unprepared to place more serious ones! ions which demand attention in tho foreground It would be worse than madness to iiddlo on protection while tho Balkans question innames Europe. Thero is danger of a, iniehtv conflagration." J Received September 17, at 10.30 a.m. -it ,> , 'Melbourne!, September 17. Mr Benzely has been elected Speaker of tho Assembly. The secretaries of tho Seamen's Union at Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, in a, joint letter, asked the Steamship Owner*' federation to renew the, existing agreement for another year from January next. It, in understood that tho request will bo nunplied with.

ti A ~ P o!wrt ' September 17. Tho Assembly has reduced tho AgintGeneral's salary to £4OO. m , r Brisbane, September 17 Iho Mayoress and another lady ai" t'v first kdv repivseutaimr, of the UuvenniM -nt Hospital Hoard. Received September 17, at 10.35 a.m.

m rr Sydney, 'September 17. The Herald f *iy. s the battle for tho Craven I late was a gicat ono. Wakeful did not: liavo a smooth passage along and was beaten inside the distance, but, lu<7 .Cruciform come on from the home turn instead of waiting for the favorite it is more than prolxililc she would have turned the. tables on Hi s Ihe race was run at a. clipping pace all tin. way.

J", Telegraph yays : "Unfortunately Wakeful was the victim of s omo intorferwieo alter passing the nix-furlong post. It. appea red that in attempt ing to improve lu-r position at that point ,sh<> was disappoints and dropped back last. She was never able to recover ih ? lost ground, so the .■aispicinn may linger that she was not fairly beaten. Cruciform was giving 7| u . x 1w „ engtils start when the last furlong was w e i f n , n ?? c '' ll,cil "I'"" that point wakeful could makt* no impression, lint Cruciform stuck to her task with such grim determination that she gradually overhauled They, and only failed by a short head.''