CONDENSED CABLES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 145, 18 December 1908, Page 8

CONDENSED CABLES.

The N.S.W. Assembly has passed a Bill,, putting the- minimum wages of boys and giris at 4s weekly. • The four Temaining natives concerned in the murder of the Greig family at Santo Island hare been arrested at. Vila and - committed for trial. ' ' [ A Bill providing for the purchase of a State coalmine in South Australia has been rejected in the Council. Some runaway trucks collide^ with. a passenger train in a tunnel on the Orleans railway (France). Thirteen passengers were* killed and thirty were injured. , - Admiral Douglas Austin Gamblehas been appointed naval adviser to Turkey and Mr Crawford, of the British Customs service reorganises the Turkish Customs department. Rioting and pillaging at Caracas has compelled the Government to proclaim martial law after several had been killed. ■'■',-. The House, of Lords has passed the Port of Londott Bill. . Longbrat, the . Canadian Indian, beat Dorando in t3ie 26 \ miles Wee at New. York in 2£- hours. Sir George Sydenham Clarke •strongly advises the Australian Government that no money be expended on submarines.