Australian.

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10730, 29 May 1903, Page 3

Australian.

. Brisbane, May 28. By an explosion at; the Day Dawn mine, a man named Staple ton was killed, and two others were seriously and two slightly injured. A fire destroyed Taylor's sawmills, Maryborough. The insurances include £4000 in the New Zealand Uompany. Sydney, May 28. Several plagued mice have been found in Sussex street. A very heavy sea is running. _ The barque Helen," bound from Kaipara to Launceston, put into Sydney through stress of weather. She had a rough passage "all the way, but the vessel is not damaged. Shipping at Newcastle is blocked, and the breakwaters at some of the south coast ports are damaged. At the Kifle Association meeting in October the prize money will be nearly £3000. It has been decided to adopt the Bisley sized targets. Melbourne, May 28. The racehorse Great Scot has been shipped to India. Practically the whole of the en-gine-drivers, excepting the members of the Executives and those guilty of intimidation, are back at work for three or four days a week, but between 200 and 300 firemen and cleaners are idle.

It transpires that Mrs Stott's throat was cut before her head was battered in. Sir Edmund Barton, Federal Premier, says he has received ho official information of the statement which appeared in an English paper that H.M. ships Katoomba, Mildura, and fWallaroo" had been recommis • sioned for three years, but that no doubt this action is in accordance with the Naval agreement, under which the whole squadron in Australian waters, with the exception of the drill ships, will be of the modern type. Doubtless these three ships are intended as drill ships, and the £20,000 proposed to be expended on them would be for fitting them for their new work. Perth, May 28. The diamond drill has struck a fifteen-inch reef at the Volunteer Blocks mine, Cue, at a depth of 760 feet. The bore assayed six ounces to the ton. Suva (Fiji), May 20. The Lotos wa3 wrecked at Kandavu. The crew have \ arrived _at Suva, and a boat which was missing ) was picked up by the s.s. Kia Ora. j No lives have been lost.