Commonwealth.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4454, 17 January 1910, Page 2

Commonwealth.

The steamer Czarina was wrecked in Cook’s Bay, Canada. The crew clambered into the rigging, but 30 were drowned out of 100. The spectators were powerless.

Melbourne, Jan. 15. During the two and a-half years the Licenses Reduction Board has been in operation 311 hotels have been de-licensed, involving the payment of over £140,000 in compensation. Sydney, Jan. 15. Francis Birtles, the well-known cyclist, starts in a fortnight to cycle round Australia, a distance of 12,000 miles;