AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 58, 28 February 1902, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

' PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION _ SYdnEy, February 27. Mrs Baikie, who was shot by her employer, Lukin, has succumbed to her injuries. The plague patient, Sallie Booth, is dead. 1 Brisbane, February 27. bailed : Aorangi for Vancouver. 1 _ Ssdsey, February 27. i Raf erring to the Australian naval contribution the Daily Telegraph says if Australia is to participate in the responsibilities of Imperial naval defence they will ultimately have to be on the same footing as taxpayers of the United Kingdom, and tney will require to have some voice in the control of the navy. _ There is one other alternative, that is the creation of an Australian navy maintained on the same basis as the Australian army is maintained. This would lift the Commonwealth from State vassalage, which in regard to the navy it occupies, and into which it would by an increased tribute be further sunk. A navy provided by their own taxpayers, controlled by their own Parliament, and manned by their own sailors, would be of much more effective service to the Empire than any gift of money such as might within the bonds of reason be accepted, Received 27, 12.22 a.m. Sydney, February 27. No fiesh pl-.gue cases are reported to-day, but the plague is having a bad effect on the attendance at theatres. Three large blrcks in the city are now infected. Brisbane, Febru ry 27. A man named Carstens is plagued. Melbourne, Februaiy 27. The Federal House of Representatives is still discussing the timber duties, the point at issue beitg whether Oregon ebould be plabed on the free list) or whether 10 or 20 per cent should be imposed. Dickson, the defaulting accountant of the University, was sen'eoced to two years.