AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 15 September 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A BATTERED BARQUE. Sydney, September 14. The barque - Amazon has arrived from Willapa harbour, 139 days out. She (met • heavy gales and was thrown oh her beam ends for hours. She sprung a leak, and the captain jettisoned 15U,0UUft of timber cargo. • ' '' 'f ?• . CONVERTIBLE CRUISERS. Melbourne, September 15. The Federal Government considers it inadvisable to publish information concerning the number of foreign vessels trading to Australia as convertible cruisers. NEWSPAPER FINED. Melbourne, September 15. The publisher of the “Age” hat behh fined £2OO and taxed in costs in cohncctioh with the Peacock case. RECORD PRICE FOR BUSINESS SITE. Melbourne, September 15. Mr. W. H. George, director of the George’s Proprietary, Melbourne, also of Messfs. George and Kersley, Wei liiigton, has purchased a block in Bourke Street for £71,000. This is ai the rate of £1035 a foot, a record prito for Bourke Street. HEAT'iN, AUSTRALIA. ‘ ■ Sydney, September 15. • During the heat wave many statiohs registered in the vicinity of 100 degrees in the shade temperature. THE KNIGHT OF ST. GEORGE. (Received 15, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, September 15. The Amazon’s captain reports meeting an exceptionally strong current in the vicinity of the Island of Fotuna. which lasted to'within 200 miles oi the Australian coast. Ho suggested it was the same current which thecaptain >of the Knight of St. George attributed the loss of his vessel. ' . . .;WOOL SALES.- ■ : : Sydney, September 15. ■ Tho.jwool sales for the week closed firm,at the lower level recently established. MOUNT LYELL RETURNS. . -a A ‘t —— ; ; i Melbourne, September 15. The Mount Lyoll returns from August 10 to September 6 inclusive are—--24)670 tons of ore treated, • also 60 tons of purchased ore. The converters produced 680 tons of blister copper, containing : Copper 574 tons, silver 32,2690 z, gold 871 oz. BUSH AND GRASS FIRES. 1' Brisbane, September 15. ■ Bush fires destroyed 400,000 acret of grass in the Winton district. Numbers of sheep perished. HEAVY COSTS. (Received 15, 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, September 15. The Federal Government has already spent nearly £IO,OOO in law costs in the Cavendish case. SHIPPING DIVERTED. Sydney, September 15. Owing to the wheat-handlers’ trouble meat shipments are being diverted to Melbourne. '• THE BOTANY TRAGEDY. Sydney, September 15. The verdict in the Botany tragedy is that .Larkin killed Dounean while of unsound mind, and then committed suicide; 'i MAWSON’S EXPEDITION. ■ (Received 16, 9.5 a.m.) ‘ .v, Melbourne, September 15, Dr. Mawson has arranged with the Postmaster-General for the reception and delivery of wireless messages from Antarctic. >