AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13330, 6 July 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

' Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright THE MELBOURNE BURGLARIES. MELBOURNE.. 'July 5. • The police ihave cleaved up nine of the reeent burglaries in the city. An Austrian seaman, named Ingot, lias confessed to being the perpretator. RECENT TRAGEDIES. At the inquest on ' the body of Mrs* Oliver,'who was found shot in her.home, a verdict of accidental death was return-" c.l. A. loaded gun was standing in the room, and-probably it received a knock. Mr Selniuiher. partner of Mr Bauer, who was murdered in his office, after examining the hitter's papers, estimates the. value of the missing diamonds at £3IOO. He has discovered nothing that gave a. clue to fjie murder. EXPORT RETURNS. ; * SYDNEY, Julv 5. The coal exports from Newcastle for the past half year amounted to 2,071,000 tons ; an increase of -297,0.00' tons over the previous corresponding half-year of 1906. The exports frpm Canada, to- Australia last year amounted' to £733.000, against £43,000' the previous year. AUSTRALIAN LOANS. ADELAIDE. July 5. The Treasurer has asked the Premiers of other States tfl instruct the AgentsGeneral to lepresent to the Imperial Government that the delaying of the issuing if the Transvaal five, million loan may detrimantallv affect the London market in connection with the raising of funds for the redemption of ten millions of Australian loans maturing in 1908-9.