Australian Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 11341, 6 October 1898, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

United Press Association.— By Electrio Telegraph. — Copyright. Beceived October 6, 12.30 a.m. Sydney, October 5. Mr Baiton has been unanimously elected Leader of the Opposition. Beceived October 6, 2.20 a.m. Sydney, October 5 ." The debate on Mr Lyne's motion of censure on the Minister of Works baa begun. From the trend of the debates scer.es are likely, aud there Till be a great washing of dirty linen between the Minister and Mr Barton. Beceived October 6, 9,20 a.m. Syi»ney, Ootober 6. Professor David, leoturiog on the Funafuti coral boring expedition, paid the general evidence pointed to a probable subsidence in accordance with Darwin's theory, it also pointed to a concurrent peripheral outgrowth so as to produce the saucerlike structure of coral rouk*, but it was premature yet to draw conclusions as to the true mode of the origin of atolls. Received October 6, 2.20 p.m. INCREASE OF AMERICAN ARMY. Washington, October 5. Ths Government intend to increase the strength of the standing army to four times what it was before the war. ADMIRAL GERVERA'S REWARD. Madrid, October 5. Admiral Cervera ba<* been created a life member of the Senate in recognition, of his services during the war. STRIKE IN BUILDING TRAPB IN PARIS. Pa t <is, October 5. A strike in the Paris building trade, threatens to retard the opening of the, exhibition. HORRIBLE FATALITY. London, October 5. Warner, the inventor of a slaughterhouse blood boiling machine, and jtwo. others have been horribly scalded to death through the machine exploding.