AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11872, 9 June 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

(Press Assn.— 3y Teiegraph--Copyright) ..Brisbane; June a. By a fire at the' Apollo soab and! candle works, Brilimba, ±510,000 'damage was done. ' . (Received June 9, 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE. June 9. Mr Deakin, the Premier,' announced that the > Imperial Goveinnrent had cabled^ cordial acceptance of the offer of tit Dreadnought or such {i|ternative as they may suggest. He hopes m a few days, to announce the precise form the gift will take. Cabinet had not yot determined the question of raising the necessary funds. Archbishop Clarke declaimed against the request of the Coliheil of Churches to set apart a Labor Sunday for sermons devoted to social and* economic questions, oh the ground that the judgment of the Church^ .vp 011 the whole question was contained m the diocesan report, and the whole annual commendation of Christian faith was a duty set forth m the prayer book. A motor car gettihg out of, control jumped a drain 2,oft wide and 15ft dedp. It fell back and was smashed. ,'lSyb occupants-^-Dugjgeon, a, - ste'psou of Mr Agar Wynne, a,hd Duffy ,\jd son of Frank Gavin Duffy, each had aaeg broken and received other injuries. ' Mi v Q. L. Vincent notifies^that he has commenoed ;■ bu^in6s3 as a.; /painter ; ,and house d^do^tcr,. and ' that IHa, stock of papers^- rhaj r - be sctfri 'at 'Messrs Black Bros. - • - ' > ' ;< .■■' •;■ : ■*';-■ "