AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15127, 23 January 1917, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, January 22. The heat wave has ceased, Heavy rain is falling. Telegraphic services are delayed. Five hundred recruits were enlisted in New South Wales last week, which is the best on record for months. The seismograph at Riverview College at 10,45 yesterday morning recorded an earthquake of high intensity 2900 miles from Sydney—probably in the Pacific north-east or Samoa. Postmaster-General Webster says eight months’ postal administration has reduced the deficit by .£270,000. MELBOURNE, January 1.2 Indications increasingly point to the Tudor party having nothing to do with the Hughes party.