AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 7 March 1905, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

_ — . — +._ — Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 6. A tragedy has occurred at Cobar. Paddy Home shot .his father-in-law, John Donnelly, dead) m tlie street, family troubles being the cause. Sailed, 2 p.m., Sonoma,' for San Francisco. She carried no extra English mails. A partial eclipse of the sun was observed under favorable conditions from Sydney Observatory and- other parts of the State. SYDNEY, March 7. Good photographs of different phases of the eclipse of tlie sun were secured. At a labor demonstration at Broken Hill a resolution was adopted expressing sympathy with the Russian strikers and! horror at the massacres, pledging practical and financial aid. MELBOURNE, March 6. The deciding contest m the Dunlop motor reliability contest from Melbourne to BaUarat resulted:— Heavy cars: H. Tarrant, 3hrs 30min-45sec; light cars: Cravenfi 3hrs 48min; motor cycles: C. James, 4hrs llmin. 3sec. Tarrant alone scored the maximum number, of points. Stevens, the hero of the Sydney to Melbourne contest, broke a driving eluift and had to retire. BRISBANE, March 6. The Government are taking strict precautions against the introduction of rinderpest, from New Guinea. There is another plague case at Fortitude Valley. BRISBANE, March 7. In consequence of the rinderpest the Government prohibits tlie importation of stock and' hides from any place with the exception of tho United Kingdom. A conference of butter manufacturers decided that the time hadl arrived to establish a fortnightly service of refri*gerated steamers to carry butter to London and South Africa at £d per pound freight, A committee was appointed to m-gotiate with the- Government and tlie shipping companies.