Australian Cables.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1217, 7 January 1905, Page 3

Australian Cables.

■ Pxe&fii6Sooiatiou.--Copyright. Ik v The Australian Squadron . Sidney, this day. Tbe naval authorities have boon advised that the third-clans cruiser Prometheus will replace the Pylades on the Australian ' station, and may be expected in Sydney by the end of March. |k No Whites NeeU Apply B| Sydney, this day. A despatch from the Colonial Secretary J? of the Straits Settlement says there is no Y employment for white men there, who L have no chanoe of doing anything. A 'Technical Education B Sydney, this day. ■ The Education Commisssoriers have isH . Bued an interim report on commercial and ■ technical education. It deals with the systems in vogue on the Continent and elsewhere, but in view of a fuller report makes no definite reoommendation, ■ The. Shipping Trade Sydney, thia day. .The Shipping Master report that 1934 ■ foreign-going intercolonial vessels, with a V* tonnage of ; 5,427,000, arrived in Sydney B Ilt year.. Though there was a decrease ■ ' jtf number of ships arriving, the tonnage ■ showed a.considerable increase.

Death of Mr B. Hallenstein

Dunedin, tliis day.

Mr, Bendix Hallonstein, senior partner in the firm of Hallenstein Bros., died yesterday. .