AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

|! ■• -;♦--; *' ; •'../.*■:.*>' ' (Press AbSJi.— By Telegraph.-fOopyrlght) jtOCKHAMPTON, April 13. Three 'niore people have been stricken with plague in tho same premises aB the previous cases. A boy attending a public school died, it is believed, from tho plague. HOBART, April 13. A Melbourne team, largely composed of the cricketers who visited New Zealand, dre^y their ; matches against Southern and Northern Tasmania. The scores wei-e : — Melbourne first innings 165; second innings, also 165. Southern Tasmania,, first 202 5 second, one wicket, 43. Melbourne, fjrst innings, six wickets for 302 (declared jelosed) rNorther'fl Tasmania, first innings 110; second, four wickets for 120. ! (SYDNEY, April -13. There was glorious weather for theholiday, which was semi-religiously observed. Sixty thousand attend.-, the show. The takirjgs were £200 more-than last Good' Fri dafi The other chief attractions were military enrampmentfi. Lord Nbrthcolß onki&lly opened the Royal Agricultural Show. There *was a large attendance Speaking at tho luncheon, the president mentioned tha,tN.ew South "AVales last year received £12,000, 000 for exported live stock and their products, which represented £10 per head of the popuhtion. The increase of incomes upon which taxation has. been paid in New South Wales' this y-iar is close on two, million pounds. : (. ,

Mr Carrtithjfs has refused applications for between cpe and two. million pounds of Governniojij stock. ' He states Government has toojrimch money whereon to pay interest. /The rate will have to be reduced.

The directo's of the North Broken Hill Junction ahdithe North Junction mines have decided: to flood them in order to extinguish tin fire still smouldering in the Junction? and free other mines of gas. This npans a suspension of work on the three properties for four months. The Premlii's' Cprtference arrived at an arrangehiJht in regard to the Murray waters. TV basis is that the channel of the river be locked at Various points between Blaric*t6wn, Echuca, and the Murrumbidgee !roni its junction with the Murray to Hay. The estimated cost is two and, a jjuarter millions, but it will only bo pi^eded with as it becomes apparent that irrigation requirements are interfering yith navigation. In order to give South Australia greater facilities for navigation, dake Victoria will be» weired, ancl the .wafer thus impounded will make the Murray navigable for three months longer thartjat present. The three States share in thi expense equally. The Premiers meetfoh Monday to ratify the arrangement.! • (Recef-ed April 14, 10.5 a.m.) f SYDNEY, April 14, Five tho|Sand seven hundred troops are partieipatii j iu the Easter encampments. Arraiigenents have been made for Dr. Mackellarjo continue local director of tho Equ italic Life Assurance Association of the Unifcd States, and Mr Taylor, the' present ge&ral manager, will remain for, the pui'pp«*> of establishing . permanent agencies iu Australia and New Zealand, to secure junctual fulfilment of the! Society's obligations, though for the present no nftv business will be accepted. Tlie step s being taken to sectors the interests o(the Company's numerous Australian metibers. A specif 1 feature of the New South Wales -exhibit at the New Zealand Ex. hihition will be. the display of njarble, Tlie indusHes of the State will be fairly represented, | though business, people have not displaced, all the interest that]* **fnfl expected. • ,' > Pierson'; ijoinery \vorks at Padduigtbn have beeiil.b-urned. The dumage amotnits to four tbiWiid pounds. The premises were uninured. (Reiei-rod April 1-4, 11.3 a.m.) A light shower fell early this morning. The weatleif is still dull, but there are indication pf its clearing. MELBOURNE, April 13. The W;>rkei'B' Union again sought a conference Vpith the pastoralists to consider theii' demands, including an increase of 'SO to 25 por centum .The pastoralists ie Fused to confer on the ground that the} biid no power to vary agree? ments alnady in existence with organisations o* employees. r , 'MELBOURNE, April 14.' , In reference to the butter brand mystery, theseci^fftary of a Queeiißlan*4 faetory expaitik ■ that some years ago tlie factory -viidertobki to supply a Victorian factory wii^ to the drought, but could not fill he contract. Some box ends bearing p\e Melbourne factory's brand remained over, and were -used in cornice^ tion wifh the recent consignment. Orders wel-e given to plane off the Melbourne jbrano\ but apparently in thjs case ib was overlooked. PERTH, April 13. The Clergy Association at Kalgoorlie urged the committee of the Gold-fields' Football Association to discontinue matches on Sunday, but the committee unanimously decided to* continue Sunday play. .**.'■ r |; PERTH, April 14. Sargood aW Butler's auxiliary warehouse has Wen destroyed by fire. ■• The damage -amounts to between twelve and fifteen thousand pounds. Tlie property was fully insured. i ADELAIDE, Aprii 14. The annual conference of the Commercial TravellerjfJ v Association of 'Australasia has opened. New Zealand is represented. _„ !