AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13888, 27 April 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Assiociation-r-v Telegraph-Copyrigbi WORK AT BROKKX HILL. SYDXKV, April 2ii. . Block X Company has., decided to pump the water out cf -the mine. It is anticipapted that tiie minors will resume work on Friday. ' COTTON' GROWING. MELBOURNE, April 20. A company is being forniod to promote cotton growing' in North West Australia. It is .proposed to utilise Hindus and Malays for the work. FROM NEW ZEALAND. The Minister of Panels embodies his conclusions on' his '•visit to New Zealand in a report to'the Cabinet. He is very much impressed with the manner in which tho labour bureau is worked in New Zealand, and he thinks the principle might well be adopted in Victoria. He denies stating in New Zealand that the Victorian Government intended introducing the graduated land tax next session. NEW CABLES.

The new cables between Australia and Tasmania will be operated from midnight on Friday. . Satisfactory trials have been made. TASMANIAN TRAGEDY. HOBART, April 23. At the inquest, in connection with the death of a girl named Langdale, the evidence showed that on one occasion she and Attwell went to the river intending to drown-themselves together. They-sat for liours waiting for darkness,, but the moon would not go down.

[On April 9th Langdale, in a fit of despair, over oiiposition to her marriage, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Her lover, Attwell, on of her death, poisoned himself.]