AUSTRALIAN CABLE

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 11593, 31 October 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE

United Press Association— Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ' Received 9.30 a.m., October 30th. WANT-OF-CONFIDENCE MOTION. PERTH, October 30. The Leader of the Opposition has given notice of a direct want-of-confidence motion, which will be taken on Thursday. The House has adjourned. RAILWAY ENQUIRY. The report of the Board appointed to enquire into the charges agaist Mr John Davies, General Manager of Railways, completely exonerates him, and states that Mr Davies' acts- were performed by Ministerial authority. WRECK OF A BARQUE. The French barque Villa De Rouen, from England to Fremantle, with a cargo of coke and bricks, went ashore near the mouth of the Moore river. The crew are safe.

SHIPMENT OF GOLD. The Arcadia shipped 100,000 sovereigns for India.

THE FEDERAL TARIFF. V. ADELAIDE, October 30. A large meeting in the Town Hall condemned the Federal tariff on the same lines as Mr Reid's motion. THE CAPE CABLE.

It is expected that the Fremaiitle-Grange section of the Cape cable will be completed in February. It is stated that the cable will lessen the time taken to send messages to and fron Europe by one-half. A further reduction to 3s a word for general, and Is a word for press massages will be made on aJnuary Ist.

MADAME MELBA,

MELBOURNE, October 30.

Madame Melba, in a letter to the Australian press, ' expressed pleasure at the prospect of a renewal of friendship with the people among whom she was born and brought up. She explains that the manyprevious rumours of her intention to visit the colonies were never authorised by her. The engagement is necessarily limited to September, October and November. Present arrangements do not include New Zealand.