AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10691, 15 May 1906, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) BRISBANE, May 14. Tho Cingalese Johannes, for the murder of apoliceman a* Mackay, and Twadega, a South Sea Islander, for the murder of a boy hear Mackay, have been executed. Death- in both cases was instantaneous. SYDNEY, May 14. Splendid -rains', .are. falling throughout the Stato. The Cricket Association confirmed the action . t of tho "executive in issuing an ultimatum. Tho' player's come to a decision by Wednesday whether they remain loyal to the Association. A shipping clerk identified Janics' photo as that of "Lee," who booked passages by the Maheno for himself and wife to Winnipeg. Tlie manager of the Atlas Assurance Company has. received .'official information from London as to the tiro losses of the various -companies in San Francisco, as follows: The Atlas lost a quarter of a million; Liverpool, London and Globe, one million; London and Lancashire, one million and seVenty-cight thousand; Royal, one million tln-ee hundred and fifty thousand. The following is the text of Mr Deakin's ■ cable in reference to the > Natal question : "Since the intervention of Ministers of the United Kingdom with the administration of a self-governing colony, Natal, would tend to establish, even with regard to the prerogative of (pardon, a dangerous precedent affecting all States within the Empire, we respectfully appeal for reconsideration of the resolution which they are reported to have arrived at on the matter." Mr Deakin says tliat the reason, he withheld the telegram in the first instance from the public was that ho was anxious that his action should not be used ' for party purposes in England. (Received May 15, 9.41 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 15. The cable-repairing steamer Recorder reaches here to-night from Singapore. A Blight shock of earthquake has been experienced twenty miles from Goulburn. MELBOURNE, May 14. The splendid rain which lias fallen over the greater part of the country removes fear of a bad grain season. MELBOURNE, May 15. The officers and crew of the Japanese squadron have been the recipients of considerable hospitality. ADELAIDE. May 15. Mr Norton, manager of the Government produce export department, has left on his first New Zealand study of the methods at freezing works and produce export depots,