AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9746, 24 January 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

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(Peb Pbess Association.) Received January 24, at 10.53 a.m. Melbourne, January 24. The Senate called the second reading of the tariff and commenced consideration of the schedule.The State Government lias agreed to pay South Australia £107,000 for the strip of disputed territory on the border, subject to the Parliaments of both States. When the Hinemoa was towed off, the captain decided to sail to port without the aid of tugs. After proceeding for some hours, the crew being dissatisfied with the captain's navigation, the command was transferred to the first- officer. The captain admits that they took the (iHjtrol from him because he carried too much sail. Received January 24, at 10.47 a.m. Adelaide, January 24. Six hundred miles of country was swept by the bush fires. An unknown man was burnt in the scrub. The names of the new '"Hundreds" are gazetted. The Government has given the name of Seddon to one, to perpetuate in Australia Xew Zealand's late Prime Minister. Perth, January 24. Watson has succumbed to the injuries he sustained through the explosion at the Associated -Mine.