AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 30, 30 January 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Sydney, January 29. The wireless operator on the steamier Manuka reports that on January 2nd ho spoke the Macquarie Island wireless station several times and since to the 20th he has, heard . "Macquarie calling hut was'unable to got a reply. Advices from Papua show that the six months’ drought lias broken and good rains have fallen. Police investigations point to Mrs Ball having been shot on the verandah of her house, the body being taken in a barrow to the place where it was burned. Sensational yields continue at the Long Tunnel Mine, Ghmdagai. Two hundred pounds of stone produced £3200. The Labour Conference added the abolition of capital punishment to the planks of its platform. A gentleman has donated £6OOO to the local immigration League for the purpose of bringing a thousand picked men from England. Two horses fell at .the Marengo races. The jockey Drown was killed and another, Apps, was critically injured. A big shark caught in the' vicinity where Morgan was killed was exhibited, and the proceeds, nearly £3O, handed to Morgan’s mother. The Rozelle Band won the A grade Interstate championship.