AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13335, 11 July 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

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THE THEATRICAL QUARREL. SYDNEY, July 10. The principal trouble with the Optra Company arose' over -Fraalein Anders-ra, who asserts that her .Engagement stipulated that she should not, sing on successive evenings. The company managed to give the opera " Valkyrie,' last nigli'i. .Fraulein Andersen was omitted from ths cas*., Fraulein Kuhuk-n singing the .part of uieglinde for the first -time. The difficulties have been', arranged so far that, the- New Zealand tour will not be upset. NEW SOUTH WALES TRADE. The .trade figurbs of New South Wales for tha decade show that thera has been an "increase, bf .nearly 1,500,000 acres in th 3 are;v placed under cultivation. ' The wh-safc area has gfown by a million acr-ec. the butter , production has • more than doubled during the period, and the mineral industry shows similar conditions. The trade of the State has now reached a total of £80,303,000, or £SO per head of tli-E----population, an increase, of £37 during the decade. ■ Received 0.20 a.m., July 11th.

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SYDNEY, July 10.

■. Tile telephone: between Sydney and Melbourne was officially opened to-day by Lord Norfclicote,. wli.o conversed i:,ucoccsfully with Sir John Madden, Acting Governor of-Victoria. The telephone will ba open to the: public to-morrow. VERY CLEVER CHINAMAN. 3lr D.arcey, member .for. Alexandria, asked the Colonial Secretary if he .was aware that a considerable amount of meat unfit for consumption was being slaughtered and used in connection with the supply of tinned meats for 'the Indian Army, and would he make inquiry as to- certain business carried, on in Botany for a few years past.. Mr Waddell replied that a certain man was being w»tch?d, but he had, so far, eluded the jauthoritkr=. He was a Chinaman and very 'clever. This was a- solitary instance- of bad meat being sold, and it was untrue that it was going 'Oll wholesale. . OBITbARY.

ADELAIDE, July 10. The Rtv. Joseph Beriy, Methodist minister, formerly of New Zealand, is dead.