AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3395, 9 April 1919, Page 36

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A five at Gundagai destroyed nine shops, the damagfl being estimated at £14,000. William Sim, a medical student, a New Zealander, was found dead in bed in Sydney. The gas was turned on. The Universal Shipping and. Trading Company proposes to inaugurate a line of 10 freight steamers to run between SeatU* and Sydney, via Honolulu, immediately peace is declared. Mr H. Judd's Sundown established a world's record at the Quirindi Show, clearing the high jump at 7ft Bin. Three boys war* playing at trench tunnelling at Perth, when the tunnel collapsed, smothering them. *" SMALLPOX. ° ;• Advices have been received that cases of smallpox nave developed on" thr.ee transports en route to Australia. * CABLE COMMUNICATION. At the annual meeting of the Australian section of the Empire Press Union the report referred to the difficulties of cable communication and the increasingly urgent need of the duplication of the Pacific cable between Vancouver and Fanning Island. , The chairman, referring to the likelihood of direct wireless communication between Australia and Europe in the near future, said that whether it was practicable for press, purposes remained to be seen, but it would at least do much to relieve the pressure on the cable lines. A COLLIER FOUNDERS. The collier Myola foundered off Sydney Heads during a storm. Four of her crew are missing. The Myola was en route from Newcastle when she was struck by a heavy blow The coal cargo shifted and caused a heavy list A rough sea was running, and the vessel gradually filled and_ sank. The collier South Bulla, following in the wake of the Myola, rescued seven survivors from a damaged boat and four others who were floating in the water.. Two seamen, a fireman, and the cook are missing.