AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9099, 18 March 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Eleotrio Telegraph -Copyright— Unl^a Press 4Bsqolatipn.J PERTH, March 18. A police party have arrived front Wyndham with three blackfellow? ami two gins implicated In connection with, the murder of Mr Murdac. AJI are mere children, the principals being lads of about 15. The gins are only 12 years of age. ADELAIDE, March 18. Professor Gregory, head of the Royal Geographical Society l^ Antarctic expedition, ha»« arrived fromi England. SYDNEY, March 16. Mr Arthur Adams, the New' Zealand war. correspondent m China, is, among the passengers for New Zealand by the Mokoia, which left to-day. The commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the. working of the Arbitration and Industrial Acts of New Zealand also left for Wellington by the Mokoia. ' The Auckland and Southern portions of the English mail have been sent by the Mokoia. The troopships Custodian and Maplemore, with the New South Wales Contingent, sailed to-day. ' The coal-lumpers have been locked out. Work aboard the steamer Ventura is, however, being proceeded with. The Federal Commission held a formal meeting to-day. The Colonial Secretary supplied them with a quantity of statistical information. The Commission meet Mr Barton on Tuesday. BRISBANE, March 1?. Mr Reid opened his freetrado campaign at Tobwoomba, his speech being m reply to Mr Barton's' recent address. Mr Reid ' fought shy of the colored labor question, and said he if ould defer expressing definite views 6n the subject until he had had a further opportunity of studying it. He intended to make a month's tour, v probably next month, m Northern Queensland before coming to a decision.