AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10777, 27 May 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Elkctrio Telegraph—Copyright.} O'er Press Association.) THEFT OF OPIUM. Received May 27, at 0.10 a.m. . , Sydney, May 20, Oswald \Y aterhoiise was sentenced to three years' hard labor for stealing opium from a Chinaman. THE REFERENDA. >, •/■ , , Mney, May 26. lho final referenda figures toe the Commonwealth are: Legislative powers os, 483,414; No, 742,073. Monopolies—Yes, 488,626; No, '£730,363.' Altogether there were 41.005 informal votes. OIL FOR WARSHIPS. Received May 27, at 9.25 a.m. | Sydney, May 27. Seventy thousand gallons of oil fuel were yesterday despatched to Hartley Vale to the destroyers. DEVELOPING PAPUA. Melbourne, May 27. The Federal Government is sending the Papuan Administration £SOOO a year for five years for the purchase of rubber > plantations. DRINKING NAPHTHA. Sydney, May 27. In order to prevent the drilling of naphtha the Minister of Customs has decided on a new- regulation providing for the addition of .1 per centum of coal tar. BITTER PIT.

Sydney, May 27. Dr Jean White's theory that the; cause of bitter pit is spraying with: arsenate of lead will be tested by the: Federal and the State Governments.