AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12144, 23 September 1907, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN.

United Press Association. —Copyright.

Received Sept. 21, 10.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 21. H.M.S.'s Psyche and Pioneer hare returned from Singapore with new crews.

Two ■children have died at Orange and one at Victoria from eating hemlock plant. The local option poll returns are complete for 79 electorates. Sixty-two voted for reduction and 17 for continuance.

A report shows that the imports of Australian leather into South Africa increased in value from £26,700 in 1904 to £58,000 last year. Lieutenant Shackleton advises that the Nimrod is unable to call at Sydney en route to New Zealand, as suggested, but will call*-when returning from the Antarctic expedition. Prolonged dry weather is causing much uneasiness in many parts of the State. Crops and stock are suffering from shortness of water. The supporters of the 19-year cycle theory claim that Australia is nearing the end of the cycle, and that next year will bring abundant rain.

MELBOURNE, Sept. 21. Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of Wendell.

BRISBANE, Sept, 21

Enormous bush fires have been burning for days in the vicinity of the Norman River, and heavy losses ,of stock are feared.

HOB ART. Sept. 21. Owing to €he unremunerative price whereto copper has fallen the Mount Lyell Blocks mine has practically closed.