AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 9 May 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright Received 10.26 p.m., May Bth. LEAVE TO APPEAL REFUSED. SYDNEY, May 8. The Pull Court refused Miss Billie Barlow's appeal against the verdict in the libel action recently brought by her against the " Bulletin." Received 12.54 a.m., May 9th. SMALLPOX. A third smallpox case, that of Lang, a member of the New South Wales Contingent, on board the Chingtu, is very mild. THE NEW GUINEA MASSACRE—THE NEWS CONFIRMED. THURSDAY ISLAND, May 8. _ The steomer Parua, which took the punitive force, has returned from New Guinea.. The officers of the force confirm the news of the massacre of Messrs Chalmers pnd killed and eaten, and the boat broken up. killed and eaten, and the toat orole.'i up. Portions of the bodies were -v.und in the vicinity, but were The Governor and another punitive party at the scene were attacked on landing. Fighting followed, and it is reported that 13 natives were killed. A native policeman belonging to the Governor's party was wounded. THE QUEENSLAND LOAN. Received 9.9 p.m., 'MayJßth. BRISBANE, May 8. The State Treasurer denies a statement which appeared in the Australian "Review of Reviews" that the last million loan was practically all taken by the Queensland National Bank and the Savings Banks. He says that nearly the whole of it was allottted to private "traders, the greater proportion of whom represented the southern States.