AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13337, 13 July 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Press AsEociiition-By Telegraph-Copyright WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY . SYDNEY, July 12. 11.M.5. Powerful, lying at Farm Cove, established wireless communication with 11.M.5. Challenger, at Adelaide. DIRECT STEAM .SERVICE. The Premiers of New South Wales and Queensland are negotiating for the establishment of :i direct steam service with London via. Torres Sti'tiit.s. AN INDIGNANT CHINAMAN. Tho Chinaman referred -to. in the meat scandal, indignantly repudiates-Mr Dacey's assertions, which lie attributes to jealousy against one wiio has earned on a successful bW:ine--s for thirty years, and to the fact that he is a Chinaman. Received 11.49 p.m., -July 12th. « DISEASED MEAT. James Thomson, a carcase butcher, who was the Chinaman referred to in Parliament in, respect to the allegations of bad meat ,w.as fined £lO for disposing of the carcass of a ccw which was in a shocking state of tuberculosis, to a, firm who displayed it for sale in Sydney. The defendant pleaded that the cow belonged to his son, who, not b;ing aware that it was diseased, killed it and -sent it. for distribution to the stores. When he (defendant) heard what had 1 been done, he used every endeavour to get the animal back. CHANGING CREWS. The Psyche and Pioneer have sailed for Singapore to obtain new' crews.