AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 580, 26 November 1902, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Copyright. MELBOURNE, Nov. 25. j Tin.- Pad lie Cable Board have fixed i the rales for Australia to Fanning island at. ordinary messages two sin I- j lings per word, and Government one and three halfpence : to Canada. 2s Id and is ltd; to United Kingdom, -'is and is Ud ; to France, Germany. Holland, and Belgium, -'is fid. Urgent messages pay double rates. Messages via Vancouver will be delivered ordinarily in London by the ofliccr oi the A t hint it companies. The body of a man named Killick, who admitted having certain relations with deeeasetl. and to whom the jury’s verdict attached grave suspicions of knowledge of the operation, was found in the river, and be is supposed to have committed suicide. SYBNKY. November 25. The Labor Congress discussed the Federal Navigation Bill. The debate showed that, the Australian shipping companies suffered severely from competition by over sea shins, manned by black and"cheap labor. The Congress referred the Bill to a committee to report. SYDNKY. November 2u. One of the parties to the Cowra tragedy, Lee,, has .succumbed to his wounds. Details of the New Hebrides murder show that Aismilh was captain of a cutter belonging to the French traders The natives of Api Island, where he landed, were returned 1 borers. 'Hie deceased was invited ashore, and was Shot as soon as within ride range. Two natives who accompanied him were wounded. BERTH, Nov. 25. A verdiel. of wilful murder was returned against. I lie dentist Kliis. in whose 'rooms, a woman was id dead. He declared that death billowed the drawing oi a tooth. A post, mullein disclosed an illegal operation.