AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 848, 2 December 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. QUEENSLAND'S NEW GOVERNOR, BRISBANE, December 1. Inclement weather interfered; with the arrangements to welcome Lord Chelmsford, the new Governor .of Queensland and his party. There howeyerj' .laxge present* A BRUTAL 34UBDER. The body of a cane-cutter' Janes Ryan. was found near McKay, with the throat cut, and the head gashed. There is evidence that a brutal murder was committed* AN UNPAID DEBT. SYDNEY, December 1. A sum of £48,000 is still owing to the Government for seed wheat advanced to farmers during the last drought. THE RABBIT PEST. . * The Government hais. granted permission to stock-'owners to conduct, at their own expense, experiments in Dr Danysz's methods of exterminating Tabbits. An island will be set aside for the purpose. Received 1.16 a.m., December 2nd. THE DALLEY DIVORCE CASE. The jury in tie D»H«y 4iT«M retired at 11.50, a*d, ikav# Mb yet rea4k*d » "verSj<?t. Tire citse Tested fir f9 iays,

four of which were occupied with counsels' addresses and summing np. Received 10.43 p.m., December Ist GALE AND HEAVY RAIN. The gale is subsiding. Splendid rains have fallen over the eastern half of the State and are continuing. Heavy falls up to 8£ inches are reported at Manning Heads. THE VICTORIAN WHEAT CROPS. MELBOURNE, December 1. The Government statist estimates the wheat yield of the State at 21,543,000 bushels, an: average of 10.05 bushels to the acre.