AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 158, 26 July 1901, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

PE« PRESS ASSOCIATION. Keciiived 25,10.20 p.m. Sydney, July 25. The vi*it of the warship M'ldura to New Zea'and is in connection wiih tbe re-mrvf-v of f,he ooa-rfs.

The degishtive Courcil has adop'ed the Addrrss-iii-R ply. , The jury returned an open verdict at the inq-.iest oq tho man CJeg3 (who pershe'd in Horde: n'« fire), and added a rider that Hordern's a";d all siroi ! ar buildings filiou'd be provided with special means of escape in case of fire, and that employees should ba instructed in the use of appliances for extinguishing an outbreak of fire. Melbourne, July 25. The Federal Immigration Restriction Bill prohibits the immigration of any perso s uumdlb to write' nind sign a dictated passage in fho £ngl<sh languid e, sinyonri likely ts become a charge up.m duM'c in-titatinnp, idiots, lunatics, convicted critnii:a!s arid otter objectionable characters, snd sufferers fr?m infect'ous (lipases, urder a penalty of s ; x months impriscament and deportment. Mastets, owners and chatterers of ve?se's f land>ng prohibit-d persons are made liable for immigwnts fill rig to pass the education test; but if thought fi h . i othfi-wife they mav ba admitted on I payment of .£IOO. ' The Bill does not apply to the Pacific I-lar dp. Brisbane, July 25. A wharf labourer nnmed Glogun has bsen attacked by plague.