AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14346, 26 October 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE DELPHIC SIGHTED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. MELBOURNE, Oct. 25. The steaincr Delphic, irom Liverpool to Sydney ilnd New Zealand, has passed Cape Otway. HEAT' WAVE IN SYDNEY. , SYDNEY, Oct. 25. A heat wavfe is prevailing. .This is the hottest October experienced for seven years. In the city the temperature stands at 94. CHINAMAN RUNS AMOK. SYDNEY, Oct. 25. A Chinaman armed with iwo revolvers and a sheath knife ran amok at Surry Hills. He fired four shots, wounding a countryman, before he was arrested. NEW SOUTH WALES LAND. SYDNEY, Oct. 25. The Minister of Lands has instructed his department officers that lands are to bo offered as original holdings only under the homestead selection or settlement lease provisions. THE PROHIBITION VOTE. SYDNEY, Oct. 25. Canon Boyce thinks that the national prohibition vote should follow on local no-license, and be the top stone of tlio whole temperance fabric. STORMS IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, Oct. 25. Storms have badly interrupted the telegraph lines. WANGANUI BAND TOUR. MELBOURNE, Oct. 25. The Wanganui . Band has arrived here. They leave for Sydney on November 2. The band will give a concert at Albury on Friday. THE DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC. (Received Oct. 26. 9.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 26. The diphtheria epidemic which has been raging for months is steadily abating. Deaths, which were only about 2 per cent, ill former years, ranged from 25 to 60 per cent. SUEZ CANAL DUES. (Received Oct. 26, 9.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 26. The Federal Government has received advices from the British authorities confirming the reduction in Suez Canal dues by five pence per ton to operate from January 1 next, VICTORIAN WEALTH. MELBOURNE, Oct. 26. A return tabled in the Assembly shows that the total net wealth of Victoria is £429,250,000, ami the total rateable value of property £252,000,000. THE FEDERAL TELEGRAPHS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 26. Mr. Hughes, addressing the Telegraph Operators’ Conference, intimated that the Government intended to make the Telegraph Department a paying concern, and at the same time give tho public a thoroughly efficient service. , THE DUTCH FLEET. ADELAIDE, Oct. 26. The Dutch fleet has arrived, and a round of festivities has been arranged. MURDER OF A GIN. BRISBANE, Oct. 26. A black gin has been murdered in the blacks’ camp at Thargomindah. | Jealousy was the cause. I : ~