AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10502, 9 July 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[Bv Electric Telegram—Copyright ] (Per Prkss Association.) COMMONWEALTH NOTE ISSUE. Received July 9, at 8.45 a.m.. Melbourne, July 0.Mr Pislier stated that the first issue of Commonwealth notes would represent four million pounds. He also stated that the decimal system of coinage would receive consideration during this Parliament. DEATH OF CENTENARIAN. . Melbourne, July .9. . William Harward, an inmate of tlie Ballarat Asylum, has died at the age of 107. He .was one of the early surveyors of Australia. LAND QUAKES. ..... Melbourne, July 9. The seismograph at the observatory shows that a, series of earth tremors has occurred extending over an liour.