AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 10012, 1 December 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[By EIeCTUC TELEOIIAI'H.—Coi'YRIUUT.]

(Pek Prkss Association.) Received Noveinlier ">(). at 10.5 p.m. Newcastle. November ..0. Arrived— Wainum. from New Zealand. Sailed—Boveric. Alma, and I lamia Ule. for Auckland. . Brisbane, November 00. In the cricket match, playing again* - - Richmond River Association, Queensland made 828 in their first innings—llarlig.i'i 200, Hutcheon (not out) 259. Received December 1. at 10.25 a.m. Sydney. December 1. Arrived—Advance,' from Kaipara. The American vacht Coronet, which sailed from Sydney a week ago and about which some mvsterv was maintained, cleared for Melbourne. The owner claimed that he was exempt of harbor regulations, as the vessel was on the register of a recognised yacht club, and reliiocd to enter the Customs. N eslerday, however, he complied. The live men. women, and five children aboard are believed to be members of some fanatical religious sect Lieut. Ullmo, the French artillery ot hcer sentenced to life .banishment lor selliiv French military secrets, passed through Svdney en route to Noumea. The Prometheus, which has returned from the New Hebrides, reports that ■Vramasanga, one of the murderers of the Greig family, was given up by his tribe. The prisoner, incensed at the treachery of his peopie, led the punitive expedition to the village where the ringleader ot toe murder was shot dead. Aramasangn watransported to Fiji for life. Newcastle, December 1. Sailed-Banksfield, for Lytleltou. Brisbane, December 1. Arrived—Aorangi. Sydney, December 1. Arrived (at six o'cicok)—l'limaroa. Received December 1, at 1.42 p.m. Brisbane, December 1. Mr Milward, manager of the Pacific Cable Board, arrived by the Aorangi. Interviewed he said the cable continues to progress. ' He regarded the penny pelword rate as impossible if it was intended to produce sufficient revenue to cover interest and expenses. Otherwise they would require an enormous subsidy, the increased traffic would necessitate the duplication of the cables many times, lie believed there was a possibility ot the existing rates being considerably reduced, and would favor some reduction if on sparing lines. He hoped to see the wireless telegraph system extended to the islands of the Pacific.