AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14347, 27 October 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

A BOY'S SUICIDE. By Electric Telegraph..—Copyright. MELBOURNE, Oct. 26. A 16-yoar-old boy committed suicide on a suburban train, as tho result of reading “Doadwood Dicks.” Ho was very determined, firing three revolver shots. DECENTRALISATION. SYDNEY, Oct. 26. Mr. A. H. Griffiths, tho New South Wales Minister of Public Works, says the Government is determined to carry out the decentralisation of the railways. THE KING’S MATCH. SYDNEY, Oct. 26. The result of the King’s Match is still under inquiry, and will not he settled till next week. THE P. AND 0. COMPANY. MELBOURNE, Oct. 26. The P. and 0. Company's branch service, to carry ono class of passengers only, is commencing in December. They will greatly increase their capacity in order to try and cope with tho immigration traffic. A CHARGE WITHDRAWN. SYDNEY, Oct. 26. The charge against Aird, not Jtuchler, in connection with tho harbour fatality on October 5, has been withdrawn. [A cable on October 5 reported that a man named Koehler has been arrested and charged with causing the death of a Russian named Trcndberg, a sailor, who was knocked overboard during a quarrel on a steamer.] OBITUARY. SYDNEY, Oct. 26. Obituary: Major Morris, of the Royal Australian Artillery; and Colonel Strong, organiser of tho Now South Wales cadets, for many years commandant of the New South Wales school cadets. COMPLAINTS FROM THE PRESS. SYDNEY, Oct. 27. The report of tho annual conference of tho Country Press Association referred to tho scandalous inadequacy of tho telegraphic service. FIRE AT SYDNEY. (Received Oct. 27, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 27. Goulstou’s auctioneers’ premises in Pitt Street have been destroyed by fire. Tho damage is heavy, but the amount is not stated. BIG ORDER FOR ENGINES. SYDNEY, Oct. 27. The Clyde Engineering Company has secured a contract for fifty additional railway locomotives to cost £283,500. a murdereiTrepiueved. ADELAIDE, Oct. 27. The capital sentence on Hine for tho murder of his wife on August 10 has been commuted to imprisonment for life. [Hine, who has lived unhappily with his wife, cut her throat and inflicted a severe wound on his own throat.] TAMPERING WITH THE SCALES. MELBOURNE, Oct. 27. The officials at Sandown Park racecourse discovered an attempt to tamper with tho scales. A hole had been cut in tho floor of tho weighing room, enabling tho weighing machine to bo operated from below. A sot of carpenter’s tools was left behind, and evidently tho work was incomplete. Detectives are investigating tho matttor. AN UNCHARTED ROCK. PERTH, Oct. 27. Tho warship Fantome will conduct a search for tho rock on which tho Pericles was wrecked. WESTRALIAN DEBENTURES. PERTH, Oct. 27. The Premier in his Budget speech announced that he intended to redeem £1,876,000 of 4 per cent, debentures in April. PLEURO-PNEU MONIA. SYDNEY, Oct. 27. An outbreak of pieuro-pneumoiiia in cattle is reported from Weewaa. STRIKE OF PLASTERERS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 27. Tho majority of the employees in tho plastering trade have struck on account of the masters refusing a demand for the increase of wages from Is 4d to Is 6d per hour.