AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10592, 22 October 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

- *, < —— -——^— — ...:.. . [Br Electric Telegraph—Cop.yp.ioht.] * (Per Press Association.) 'AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. Recened October 21, at 9.45 p.m. Sydney. October 21. ' Dr Deck, of the* South Sea Evangelical Mission, in a letter, gives an account of iiilnti it-.ling discovery. While exploring the nl.iin! oi Guadalcanal - he found the hones of the members of the Austrian scientifu |i.ut\ under B.iron fon Jvorbedi, nnudcied iiitrcn years •Sgp lln liainii and his party were -£ne first while mi n ro \ isir the island, and while r limbing a mountain they weTO surrounded bv hordes of natives who killed and afterwards ate five members of the p.irto, including Baron Norbeck and i midshipman named" De Beaufort The bones wore found scattered about and overgrown with >;egcta4;ipn. One skull showed where it had Tieen pierced with an axe.

' :'. ■ , WELCOME RAIN..: - Sydney, October 21. ' A soaking and much-needed rain is falling on the coast, and Jrigh land districts: Over inches fell -to-day in /thVcity.„' .There is,, dirty weather along "tlfe. coast. -. , • . • "f&% ..;.^? BSIDY FOR RADIUM. -Received, October 22, at 9.5, a.m. . "X'i" '■> <Vt - -' Sydney, October 21. - Government has authorised the • " - -a £ for £ subsidy on £2llO ' for the purchase of ra- :>'.,-. ■ "~ . ".:}'"" Sydney, October 22. '>4M_monster''shot, consisting of 17001bs was fired at the Port ' -JKemMa; "Quarry, rofistoneJ cl , ■-- !- . • RETURNS-, ', ' s^fc**&y^.- , - - Sydney,; October 22. -.-,*;»3Hfe' quarter's "railway earnings show ;£227,174 "".over those 'of last j'ear, 'and --HfiSewofkirig expenses have increased hy " £144;744. "'/fS'" "UNFAIR METHODS. . October 22, at 9.30 a.m. ■'fr)p:' •; Sydney, October 22. : - *£A.rchdeacon Boyce accused the liquor - pjarty of letters purporting "to? emanate from the Alliance, stating 1 thafonow the liquor trade was under -:heel r '.they (the Alliance) wanted to 7(BKolisli;'smoking. The Archdeacon" said - for the purpose of alienat.i&ig "sympathy. '"Received" October 22, at 9.30 a.m. «£>**>, - - Melbourne, October 22, V"-In-the Senate Mr Symon vigorously attacked the land tax, declaring it was confiscation, and brought the pommonTVeaitli .to" the worst pomt it had jet -reaghe'd. y .When the true nature of the " iax.' Tvas' realised the people would sffeep\away the authority. It was" a 'cjass "i;ax", and wholly indefensible. The "debate, was adjourned. -Jti';<;..'" ' - lf*'J \ " SHOOTING. '■* . Melbourne, October 22. ',;ln the King's Match Chmtian (Vic- -, toria) and Harrison (New South, Wales) , tied with 323.' Christian won the /shoot-off.- Steinhardt (Adelaide), with ,322£,, wjdg third. The New Zealand tejrn 'jvjere. runneis-up to the Parra•nmtta jGliib in the Colonial Ammunition .Company's Challenge Cup.