AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 15 May 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

| FEB PKESS ASSOCIATION. liecoived 13, !i.83 a.m. Sydhey, Mjy 13. Visitors are flocking back from Melbourne, Tie experiment in d t ainng »nd . aritvait.inf} (lie iv.turr.iog New South Wale-: and Queensland t oops at Albuiy was ! ighly s ,ti?faet <ry. Within a shotfc timo eight t'n'cs eanveyirg 1,000 in n, 400 h'jises, gtr s, and w«g.o s t.f j baggaw wei e dotrafco f, fed, and entiaincd without tlo subtest hitch cr mishap. I lii a tribal light at Berlin Ilav- n, j Cism-irck Arohipel.ij.o, two men and two women wire k 11- d. The ringleader was arr<sted, but escaped. Adelaide, May 13, , Thf) population of Ihe Sta'e is 362.595, an imrea«o cf tliiite.n per eeut. during the decade. - Kcceived 13, 10.13 a.m. Perth, May 13. Sfc'-ps are being taken >o induce farracs from tie eastrn Sates to settle in VVtstralii. Brisbane, May 13. A cl ild nsmed Clifford, daughter of Mw, Cl ill" n*, a previous vic'.im, has beta S'.iz:d with p'agu<\ Keceived 13, 2.34 p.m. Sydney, May 13. A s'xth cise of smallpox is reported on the OLingtu. Brisbane, May 13. Becfcman has bean executed for the murder of Andtrs-in a<; Townsville. Received 15, 1.4 a.m. Sydney, May 14. A party of beys were shooting st 1 East Maitland when William Carter aecidently shot Aithur YVateon dead. Cartir, in an sgony of remoreo, blew out his own brains. Adelaide, May 14. The issued are issu .d to fill the vacancies caus d by the elections for the Federal P rl ament. The polling is fixed for the Ist June. The Union Jack w«s s'mu'tHneously hoisted on all 'he t-choo's, follow d by , the singing of the National Anthem 1 and chte s for the Commonwealth. Similarly in all n'her Sates, except- 1 iog Queensland where caving to the , Hos'ing'n thn day of the opanhg of Federal Parliament, no coLcerted action was "taken.