AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9640, 15 January 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

-Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Pres' Association SYDNEY, January 14. ■'The Government have received advice tftnt. a million bills have been floxitt'd m London at par. (_">bituary: Mr Roue, private secretary to t he Governor. He was recently attucket w 'th typhoid fever, and consumption si As fleet paymaster deceased i I|aw considerable service m Africa.. He was 'present at the capture of Benin f'iiv- <mn ' took part, m the .operations against the and Congo pirates. He was also m *" c expedition against Arabs on" the East ' Cou*L The funeral .^nrioe of the late b.r P. Saruood wis 1 V;1(1 m ycots Church. It was attended b Y ' <Sir ?•. Bnrlon « S j r Jolui See, leading coinn tc^ml men .and numbers of the Federal aiK* « la . te ' Parliaments. Dr. Bruce delivere 4 fv v Jmprew'vc option. , . A heavy south-wc* giu'e * s ™«»>8 °» the coast.' The weatlioi- is #*™f ""ilry. (Receivea, January* 15, 1x0.16 a.m.). SYDNEY, J^" 1 - 15 ; . In the League Cup jChaluier^ won Ins heat, defeating Don WaJker by an inch. • Taylor also qualified. . A question, to bo. brong/it befoin> i ' i u>c next Federal Cabinet meeting will x'^ v « reference to t h c metho<l of paying the i"cbatc on sugai* allowed to groweiV with' white labor. Practically New South Wales and Queensland pay the whole ex- - oise, and as the rebate is paid out o<f it ' these two Stales, are. paying the cost of a White Australia. So iar as sugar. is concerned, the Queensland Premier '«w---gues that the whole of the sugar eonsuin- - ers of the Coinmc »uw<ealth should pay. BR ISU.ANE. January 14. The Bishop ot: J' forth Queensland has returned from a visit to his diocese. He declared that hi; m impressed will the degraded moral cod ditions of the bulk of the alien popuJ/atii >n m the north. He ink'nu-> to pi-octied to tlie. southern rfiates to arouse interest '*. m northern missionary work. The indiulg< aice m vice, he says, is sr. deplorabVe t' h<it comniou prudence cu'is at once for a| :tive steps. BI USBANE, Jan. 15. The Treasurer is awaiting advices from the Agent-General pi-eparatory to plae-r ing a million loan ■. on the London mar- ■■ ket. • : . ' (