AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12405, 29 December 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN.

;United Press Association —Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 28. During a cyclonic gale in the Blue Mountains the gasometer at Katoomba overturned, plunging Katoomba and Leura in darkness.

News from New Guinea states that some back the NorH- German Lloyd's Company sent an official. i'rom liremen to search of coal deposits in German New Guinea. The officer has just returned to Simpsonshafen, and reports that he found a good deposit, but too far inland to ensure practical working. He, however, found large phasphatic deposits near enough to be worked on a business basis. The new port of Simprfsonhafen has been christened Rabaul, the native name of the township.

MELBOURNE, December 28. Bush fires are raging in the Kilmce district.

Burnt-out farmers and their families are flocking into the townships.

BRISBANE, December 28

Owing to severe floods the Kitchener camp has been postponed.' Under present arrangements Lord Kitchener leaves Melbourne for New Zealand on February 12th.

The Mauku.ra's passengers for Auckland are:—Messrs Smith, Godall. McDonald, Jones, Clark, Ellis, Williamson, Larsen, Carlsen, K. Larsen, Parker, Freeman, Dandle, Miss Billing, Mesclames Smith and Jones. For Wellington : Messrs Lewis, A. Campbell, J. Campbell, Waterworth, Bishop, Drury, Whittam, Hamer, Misses Lewis and Walsh, Mesdames Lewis, Campbell, and Abbott. For Lyttelton: Miss Tacker, Mr and Mrs Jones. The cargo for Auckland includes: 124 cases drugs, 45 bales cotton, 10 cases shoes, 19 cases nutmobiles, 577 cases salmon, 20 cases cheese, 31 packages sundries. Napier: 3 cases automobiles, 5 bags coffee, 145 cn'ses salmon. Wellington: 36 cases corsets, etc., 10 bales cotton, 450 cases salmon, 5 cases automobiles, 95 cases drugs, 5 cases bicycle parts, 45 cases shoe, 1 case gasolene engines, 2 cases sundries. Lyttelton: 21 cases drugs, 480 cases salmon. P cases automobiles, 1 case effects, 25 bales leather, 10 cases organs. Dunedin: 6 cases corsets, 8. cases shoes, 860 cases, salmon, 49 cases drugs. Bluff: 162 cases salmon.