AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19553, 6 May 1905, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright

SYDNEY, May 5. Received 6ih, 12.35 a.m. Another case of plague is reported at Newcastle. PUCK OUTDONE. Time signals despatched round the world to mark the opening oi the International Railway Congress reached Sydney in 2.:>8 MALICE OR MISADVE'i PURL ? MELBOURNE, May 5.

An unknown man invited three others to partake of a bottle of beer which proved to be poisonous. One man has since died. POSTPONED MANOEUVRES. SYDNEY, May 5.

Received sth, 10.12 p.m. The general naval manoeuvres of the Australian squadron for 1905 have been postponed. H.M.S. Cadmus Is under orders to proceed to Hong Kong. WHOLESOME CRITICISM.

As an outcome of the controversy regarding the expense of a peripatetic Hiigh Court the Chief Justice has announced that the Court will sit as long as it deemed expedient in any on© capital. This will probably effect a saving, the Court sitting for a longer period in one city, instead of moving about regularly, whether business demands it or not. Under the new agreement the beadquarters of the Court will be to a great extent at Sydney. THE A.M.P.

At the annual meeting cf the A.M.P. Society it was reported that the accumulated funds had increased to 201 millions, while the bonus distributed was the largest jet' and much larger than that of any mutual life office in the British Empire. Mr Richardson reported satisfactory business in N.Z. The report was adopted.-