AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10106, 25 March 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Assocxmson.) Received March 24, at 11.35 p.m. Sydney, March 24. The popularity of Sir H. Rawson was iimionst rated on his departure for En£i k:ti. via Japan, to-day. The whole route i the wharf was packed with cheering thousands to bid hon voyage to the governor and iiis daughter Two brothers working at C'amperdown Eave contracted plague. They worked in Sussex street, in the city. The Jlnana brings news that the Aeon has broken up. The- warship Cambrian ■visited the scene of the wreck and found the Aeon had broken her t>aek. The forepart remains on the reef, but the after part his disappeared Melbourne. March 24. Obituary—Mr Hudson. Kailway Commissioner. Received March 25, at 0.50 a.m. Sydney, March 24. Sailed i2 p.m.)—Mokoia. The Broken Hilt Proprietary Mine profits for the half-year ended .the 50th -November were £25,791, compared with £22.775 for the previous half-year. .Melbourne, March 24. Sailed—Warrimoo. Received March at a.m. Sydnry, March ~20. Further slight earth tremors wer."> recortM at the Observatory on Tuesday morning. Those are believed to Be the slime disturbances reported in Sew Zealand on Monday. The jockey Clayton, injured by the Rosehill accident, lias succumbed. An American team of boy ritte shots is comin-c to compete with Australian bov tean-s. The two men Rosser and I.yons were committed for trial for maliciously destroying the Proprietary Company's railway line on January sth. Melbourne, March 25. Hie Hijilt Court granted a writ of prohibition in connection with the Broken Hill arbitration award of April M. Obituary—Mr C'resswell, Secretary «i the Cricket Association, fcived .March 25, at 10.50 a.m. Melbourne, March 25. Tie Postmaster-Genera:! has_ received fca the London Pest Office intimation tint arrangements have been nuvle for a •S&r mail service via San Francisco Papeete to Wellington and Sydney. & J[ariposa, from San will •meet with the steamers of the Union fompanv at Papeete, and the latter will trio; on the mails to Australia. Owing to the recent irregularity of the service from San Francisco by the Australian mail line the new service will be used. Corrtaponilence by the San Francisco mail .*illl».lae at- Sydney from 41 to 45 days after despatch from London.