AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10594, 25 October 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

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PROVINCIAL PRESS. Received October 2-1, at 9.10 p.m. ] Sydney, October 24. .- : I'flie fourth annual conference of ; the3 Australasian Provincial Press Association .was to have been held at Auckland; on November 22nd, but was postponed to March on a day to be fixed. NEW ZEALANDEIt' DROWNED. ■ Received October 25, at 0.5 a.m. r . v Sydney, October 24. ■ - M.-Millun, New Zealander^* was - accidentally drowned in' tlio \Vhangpoo River, Shanghai. BRITISH NEW GUINEA. , r , Sydney, October 24. ■Air H. Champion, Treasurer of the. lapuan Government, is visiting Sydliey. He says that satisfactory pro- i gress is being made with "Papua. Largo j areas are being cropped with rubber, j cocoanuts, and hemp,and there ;is | plenty of native labor offering. 1 '-The ' finances are buoyant, but- it will be a I considerable time before the.- Government ,Js .ablo to get along - without the*! annual ~C 20,000 01. Commonwealth sub- ; Sldj'. - ' . ;' j

THE USE OF VESTMENTS. . Sydney, October 25. J licrc is further: trouble at St. James Church, and the license of the Key...l ifct, assistant, minister, has been revoked, , It is understood that this: is ttic_ result of tlie wearing of vestments ana other practices, whereto Archbishop Wright is opposed. DECREASE IN COAL SUPPLY. 0 . Sydney, October 25. bmco the big strike, the coal export from .Newcastle has steadily decreased. -LJie situation is causing much anxiety boi,n to mineovvners and miners. OBITUARY. r,. i _ Sydney, October 25. Obituary- Colonel Mackenzie", -exCommandant of the Tasmaniai! Forces. LABOR JUBILANT. m Sydney, October 25. Ine speeches at_tlie Newcastle Eight riours demonstration were jubilant over the 1 result of the elections. BEER STRIKE. - Received October 25, at 9.55 a.m. i: ■■ Sydney,' October- 25. As a result of atbeer, strike at Broken j Hill, the publicaiis'; have reduced-, the price from sixpence to fourpence a pint. ANTI-LIQUOR CRUSADE. Mr Complin, Secretary of' the New South Wales Alliance, warmly approved New; Zealand's hew prohibition Bill. He says it looks like a very serious attempt to deal adequately with a. very serious evil. He favors a similar Bill for New South Wales. A PITIFUL CASE. Melbourne, October' 25. Morfessie, charged' with the murder of his wife at Kilmore on-July 15, lias been adjudged insane and ordered to bs detained at the Governor's pleasure. GOLD BOOM IN AUSTRALIA. Perth, 'October 25. The boom of the Bullfinch find continues, and several other new finds of' value are reported. The offer of £200,000 for the Bullfinch lease on behalf of a Loudon sliarebroker has been refused. The original finder sold.a one-sixteenth share for £IO,OOO. The Young Bullfinch Mine has been floated at Adelaide for £60,000, and other sales have been made at high prices.

It is reported there is considerable excitement on the Interstate Stock Exchanges, and shares of the Bullfinch and adjoining find's are changing hands at big advances.