AUSTRALIAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN

(Press Assn.-. By Telegraph.— CopyHght ) (Received April- 14, 3.29 a.m.) _ .•■,;.';■• ; : SYDNEY, , Burglars dynamited' a safe at"; the Looma rai lway station and secured £t49 . ■ Commissioner MoKie, head Pat -t the «' v i_ : ? on • - A'rp»y,. - has received o General .Booth su instruction to bid farewell to Australia. ■ • .... ..-,., ■>■

y .- ,= .MELBOURNE, April Yl4. , • M* drought, m- tlie„iioith-easterho*disr ;trict s is • very, severe. Many owners -axe compelled ,, to. hand-feed/ large quantities ; of stock, aUd.ai'e priding to dthif ;distwcts. . Y '-■•"-.,.■-'. • ■ '-.' o .'-,-. ' :'■'■

. ' Stock returns shew J (lie " niimbei- of '1,842,805, 14,116; ?34;, ' v In / .ack case tlie figures show a record/ ,4hfeej> ■lT^rwi^edhy.: 1,209,000. 7. ..-.■' v","-. Y The election; df the Federal small arms factory ;at o Lithgow. wi Ij obe commenced at ; once.. Tlie ,estimated^o*t' is;. £70,000. ;. ; nv v^pril^4J o a.he- garner vAldenharii . has ■ arrived ; frohv ClrninY A. Cliiriese meirih^ofHhe crew; .ts suffering from, small pox.*' " ' Pj2 : P /X ' HOBART, YApril: 14.; . Efforts of • buyers to; bear tlie jVrSce of Australian hops nil' round, is rekerited<'by local. growers, avlio to ask'the, Commonwealth Government to ihcreasia the import duty a. shilling per lb/