AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10630, 6 December 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

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(Per Press Association.) \ AUSTRALIA'S NAVY. Received November 0. at 8.50 a.m. Adelaidi, December 5. The Commonwealth destroyers havearrived.

The Governor. Admiral D- H.Bosanquet,.congratulated the crews on the success 'achieved m performing the long voyage in surli mm.ill vossois without accident or breakdown of any kind.

THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. Melbourne, December 5. The Executive passed -the Federal Capital proclamation, which provides that from the first of January next the territory surrendered by New South Wales to the Commonwealth is accepted as territorv of the Commonwealth..

DESTRUCTIVE HAILSTORM. Sjdney, December G. During a hails'torm at Murriwillumbah lumps of ice as big as teacups fell, causing considerable damage.

DEATH OF AGED CAPTAIN. Received December 6, at 9.35 a.m. Svclney, December-G. Obituary—Capt*ain Bremner, aged 82, the oldest mariner in the Common-wealth-and one of the pioneers of the Island trade.

COAL STRIKE. Sydney, December G. A strike..has occurred in the Abermain, colliery owing to a dispute as to the i-payment for'pillars, and 650 men are thrown idle.

DOUBLE SUICIDE. ' '■..' ■ Piertlr, December G. Two brothers named Toe were found dead on the sandhills with a bottle of chloroform , alongside. It is supposed to be a case of dpuble suicide.

OVERWEIGHT BAGS. Received December 6, afc 10.20 a.m. Adelaide, December 6. The lumpers engaged on..the steamer Gracchus struck against unloading a cargo of Java sugar because the bag was above the prescribed weight.

. GOLD SLUMP. !.\:'? l jj|"i,. Adelaide, December 0. Owing" tt> ah advense report on the Great Chaffinch mine, s V7estralia, there isr-* heavy slump- irushares. A Stock Exchange, meeting discussed the situation and sent an urgent cable to the Westraliani Minister of Mines asking that, for the good Reputation of mining, a strict investigation should be made into, the conflicting Chaffinch reports. . ■ . SORDID "TRAGEDY. "-I .. Perth, December G. A named Defaur died as the result /of wounds inflicted by a Japanese named Seto with whom she had been living. The fatality was the outcome of. jealousy.

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Received. December 6, at 9.35 a.m. : . Sydney, December 6. Mi- M'Gowen will deliver his Budget to-iiignt. . , _. • , Mr Holman's Deserted Wives and Children Amendment Act provides that when a .husband is sent to gaol for non-paymeni. of maintenance orders he be given remunerative labor, and the money earned, after deducting the cost of his keep, is to go towards the satisfaction of'.the nmintenance order.