AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12911, 27 February 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copy right. AN ORGAN BUILDER. BRISBANE. February 26. The s.s. MiKina lias arrived. Among her passengers Ls Mr Ingham, the organ builder, who comes to construct the organ for the Christchurch Exhibition.

FIRE ON A TRAIN. HOBART, February 26. While a special train was conveying Williamson'* Opera Company fr«*m L.-mn-ceston, a truck took fire, and the testarucs for the operas " Princess Ida" and " The Mikado," w*re extensively injured. The damage Ls estimated at £IOOO. It is supposed that the lire originated through, a spark from the engine. BITTER COMPLAINTS.

The Premier, in unfolding the Government's policy in view of the approaching election, complained bitterly of the treatment of the St.iic by the "Federal Parliament, which was crippling the Stale's finances without giving anything appreciable in return beyond a iittfc inter-state freetrade. This state of things had so crippled the Government's resources that no extensive innovations or progressive scheme could be undertaken. HEAVY RAIN*. SYDNEY. February ?A. There have been heavy rains in tlis Northera River* District for the past fortyc'ght hours, ranging up to seven inches.