AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 87, 2 May 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 1, 10.17 a.m. Melbourne, May I. Mr. Seddon has communicated to the Premier his regret at not being present at the opening cf P<trliamen f . Adelaide, May 1. Bir Joseph Symocs, who was recently knighted, will, by order of the King, be invested with the • honour at M elbourne by the Duke of Cornwall. This will be tbe first personal investiture in Australia. The staff of the Britannia have commenced the work of laying the shore ead of the Ctpe cable at Grange. Freemantle, Mayl. . The Highland Forest settled down in fifteen minutes. The officer?, craw, and captain's wife and child were landed safely.

Receive! 1, 9 20 p m. Sydsey, May 1. The president of the various M tbodist connexions haa signed a plan of the union.

Hobakt, May 1. Dr. McOoll, Protectionist, fills ths vacjccy in the Slate Par iiment caused by the election of Sir E. Braddon to the Fedi-ral House. Received 1.10.55 p.m.

Sydney, May I Mr. Wragge predicts the Ophir wiil txperience rough wtathtr between Albany and Melbourne.

The Rt»v. Dr. Cooper hos been in stalled Bishop of Gtvfton acd Armi' dale.

Received 2, 1.7 a.m. Arrived, the Macap&uri, fiom Fiji, the Chief Justice and twenty-three members of the Fiji Constabuliry under Colonel Francis b irg passengers en route for tha Melbourne cel.braticni.