AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 302, 4 January 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright (Received January 4, 9.30 a.m.) tsYDiSiiii', 'llns Uay.

Mr Dacey has changed the project of creating a suburb of wooden Stateowned. cottages at Kensington to brick. The Lord Mayor outlined a big scheme of further improving and beautifying the city and -overcoming th-' traffic congestion. The Railway Commissioners are also carrying out extensive plans for overcoming suburban passenger congestion. I>r Ron-hard, a French resident at Wall is .Island, has returned from a. visit to France, wihere he went to oonisuilt the Colonial: Minister im reference to tlio trouble that for a longtime existed between the residents and the Marist Brothers at the Island. Dr Borehard's mission obtained auihority to break.tlio alleged overruling of the powers of the priests, and returns armedi with special inistructions from the Minister to deal with the situation. He declines to disclose his plans. An athlete named Lane was seized with illness shortly after departure from New Zealand. On, iarriva.l he was removed to a, hospital, suffering from an internal complaint. MELBOURNE, This Day. A return shows the Commonwealth's population includes 52,343 n<on-Europeaus, whereof 25,772 are Chinese —«, decrease of 7393 Chinese since 1901. PORT DARWIN. This Day. Three more cases of small-pox lia-ve occurred oil the Taiyuan. (Received January 4, 10.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Thisf Day. Kissing Lhe Bible in the police court has been abolished, lhe witness holdsthe Bible and swears. Government has appealed to the Colonial Office in connection with the political crisis. . The Imperial authorities declined to interfere' in the internal affairs of a self-Governing colony until every constitutional remedy was exhausted. The Council yesternight carried a resolution for forwarding to the Imperial authorities, protesting that the Premier's message to the Colonial Office was incomplete and misleading. Both Houses passed a supply to earrv the Government over the elections.

It is understood the dissolution will tiike place in the middle ot January, and the election early in February. MELBOURNE, This Day. Obituary—Lewis Hid die, Commissioner of Savin# Banks. FREM ANTLE, This Day.

.Mr Henniker Heaton declared the deferred cable concessions were made out in alarm as the result of the agitation for reductions. The concessions -were amusing and illusory, and would merely benefit the millionaires and prove nn ; satisfactory to Australia, and New Zealand. He would not be satisfied till able to cable twelve words for one shilling between England and Australia or vice versa. It was within the range of practicability.