AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9642, 17 January 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Eleotrio Telegraph-Copyright- -United Press ' Association ' SYDNEY, Jan. 16. ' Vice-Admiral Fanshawe lias been offi- 1 •cially welcomed. He assv.mes command ' •of the station on Monday. MELBOURNE, Jan. 16. ; Kruffoff, the Russian Imperial Commissioner, doubts the accuracy of the cable : 'message that express tnains have com- i menced running at Siberi? t. When he left ' the latter country m Sep tember last sev- 1 oral bridges and other works remained j to be completed. The line will not be ' quite ready till May. A conference of Europe an railway man- ' agers meet m Paris m. May to decide upon a train service fro m Pai'is to the Far East. i CHARTERS TOW ERS, Jan. 16. : A cage containing six men was being lowered m the Brilliant mine. The en- ' jjine ran away, and the ~cage crashed to the bottom. One man had his thigh ; and both ankles broken. Others sustained broken thighs or anklos. (Received January 17, 10.6 a.m.) ADELAIDE, January 17. . The Premier sent a strong minute to the Lieu^enant-GoyemoT resenting his ( iemarkß at the laying o>f the foundation , stone of the Savings Bank, m which he \ delivered a warning to depositors against any Government control of the bank. It lias been for some time a. debatable matter whether the Government should not assume control. The Premier thinks the Lieutenant-Governor made a mistake m ■ volunteering a personal opinion. The ■bvernor explained that he spoke as a , V<3Bpositor, not as Governor. • , HOBART, January 17. Sir E. C. N. Braddon is veiy ill. PERTH, January 17. At the Melba concert a number of persons clambered on to the roof of a shed to get a view of the diva. The roof col- • lapsed, precipitating 50 to the ground. Two women were injured.