SECOND EDITION. LATE CABLES.

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

SECOND EDITION. LATE CABLES.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright ' MELBOURNE, January 3. The Commonwealth revenue for the six months show an increase of £571,233 over the previous corresponding period. The Federal clothing factory has commenced operations. The building covers half an acre. The' conditions of employment embody labor ideals. The factory' closes for a fortnight at Christmas so as to <tUow the employees an- annual holiday on full pav. NEW Y.ORIC, January 3. A rotary snow plough, fell thrbugh a partly burned bridge spanning a *no\vfilled gulch at Valdez, Alaska. An engineer was crushed to death beneath it. Governor- Osborne, at the meeting of the progressive Republicans at Lansing, advocated Mr Lafollette and Mr Taft re tiring from the presidential contest in favor of Senator Beveridge. LONDON, January 3. So hiv £6OOO has been collected for the Florence Nightingale statue to .be erected opposite the Criemean Memorial in Waterloo Place. OTTAWA, January 3. A fire at Toronto destroyed part of a lunatic asylum containing 1100 inmates It is believed that all escaped. NEW YORK, January 3. Olaf Trietmoe, Anton Johansen, and J .Munsey were arraigned at Las Angelos on a charge of being parties to the dynamite conspiracy. Ihe pleas were fixed for January 12. .A number of trade union leaders have telegraphed asserting their belief in the innocence of the accused.