AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13642, 9 July 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Pnit \nociatinn- By T«legraph-( 'npyriglii

Received 11.30 p.m., July B'h. PROTEST BY THEATRICALS. SYDNEY,' July, 8.

A meeting of leading theatrical in anageie, including Messrs} Williamson, Flemming, ' Meynell, and Gunn, Willoughby and Ward, West's Pictures,; and Geach, '• was held to-day, -as a protest - against tue Christchurch Council's recent by-law on the management of theatres, and carried a resolution; that tlie action is arbitrary in the extreme.

THE STAR OF JAPAN. • v Thei underwriters have received .-a - cable : messsage stating. -'that£6o;ooo ; worth of sound cargo has been; salvaged' from the -Star of oJapan. • ■ NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS. The Government have appointed a dozen members to the Legislative i Council, including f Colonel Burns, Mr Philip Gullett (ex-editor ofthe " Telegraph,")"Mr Hughes (Lord Mayor), Mr B. B. O'Connor (an exJLinister). 1 SHORT OF PROVISIONS.

The scow Maroro, 28 days out from Raglan to Sydney arrived off Port Stephens on Saturday morning, short of provisions. She secured a supply at the lighthouse. She reported that she signalled several vessels that she was short of supplies, but in each case the signals were either unnoticed or disregarded.

INSURANCE COMPANIES. ADELAIDE, July 8. The Full Court confirmed the Amalgamation, of the Mutual Life Company, and the Citizens Life Assurance Company.

PENNY CABLE MESSAGES.

MELBOURNE, July 8.The - Commonwealth electrical Engineer considers tlikt''- it will require an enormous acceleration; of.'speed ito bring tliei cable- rite" within" the ; possibilities of the peiinyi &' word suggested by Mr Henniker Heatpn.;i v - In--thc present slate of -our knowledge of i higher' speed -ion' long-dis-tance cables than -at present obtains, it does hpti-appear ;pdifeibiej It must be considered, : yhowever,-; that telegrams' without wires were looked -upon as a : dream: • ■ LAND POLICY REQUIRED.

The Minister' of Agriculture, referring to the heavy falling. olf in the export- of agricultural products,; said that no doubt the. time' was rapidly arriving when a policy which' would break: up big estates for agricultural purposes must be adopt&d.

QUEENSLAND SUGAR YIELD. V'" . ; (BRISBANE, July 8 /The' sugar yield last year was 188,307 tons,- which is a record.