Australian.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11739, 17 September 1902, Page 5

Australian.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright, BRISBANE, September 16. The bush fires swept the sugar farms on .Fhnpanalsland. The.-fires are still raging in the Mambour district. ' MELBOURNE, September 16. The Premier lias issued a manifesto urg- ! ing the people to support the po'icy upon which the Ministry was defeated. He promises to introduce a Reform Bill to provide for the dissolution of both Houses within sis months of passing, ,Its concomitant measure is- a Redistribution Bill. He concludes: Are you prepared to take parti in stopping financial drift and establishing sound economic constitutional .conditions? A writ has been issued dissolving the State Parliament. ;The polling will be .held on the Ist of October. The Penguin continues in survey work on the New Zealand coast. The annual repoi-t of New Guinea shows that the imports were valued at £72,000 and the exports at £50,000. Both show a small decrease as compared with the previous year. PERTH, September 16. The Himalaya took £231,000 in bullion for London. • SYDNEY, September 16. Splendid general rains have fallen in South Australia, and good in Victoria. Two violent earth tremors were felt at Young. Buildings were shaken, and some sVightly damaged. At the inquest on McGabe and McMurray, the Kembla'rescuers, a verdict was returned that their deaths • were caused "by carbon mon-oxide while nobly endeavouring to save life. The coroner and others eulogised the heroism of the other rescuers.