AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 8 May 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

United Press Association—Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.9. a.m., May 7th. A TIGER'S TEETH. SYDNEY, May 7. In Wivth's Circus at Wellington, Carr . Wirth was putting some tigers through ' a performance, and was severely bitten in . the leg. An employee succeeded Wirth, but he also was bitten. Received 9.9 a.m., May 7th. THE SYDENHAM RAILWAY ACCI« DENT. 'ie Railway Commissioners have apposed a board of experts from other States to make an independent enquiry, concerning the Sydenham railway accident. THE INDRAMAYO. = Sailed—lndramayo, for Auckland. TRAGEDY AT CHARTERS TOWERS. CHARTERS TOWERS, May 7. ■' Corday and his wife visited a hotel. The: former shot his wife dead, then shot himself below the heart, and he lies in a , critical state. Jealousy is supposed to., have been the cause of the tragedy. ■ ': A CENSUS RETURN. PERTH, May 7. ," ! The population of. Western Australia is-"' 182,553. ■"* SMALLPOX. • MELBOURNE, May 7. • • The steamer Darius arrived at Calcutta \. with a mild case o$ smallpox aboard. The .: patient is an Indian messroom boy. ;•, CAPSIZE OF A MISSION BOAT—FOUR BLACK BOYS DROWNED. BRISBANE, May 7. A mission boat containing "four black: boys capsized at Woody Island, and till the occupants of tie boat were drowned. Received 9.48 p.m., May 7th. : GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA. : HOBART, May 7. JMr Chamberlain lias advised the Govern' m'ent that Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, lately. Governor of Madras, has been ap» . pointed Governor of Tasmania. Received 12.16 a.m., May Bth.

. The appointment of Sir A. E. Havelock, as Governor of Tasmania, is confirmed.