AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17732, 7 April 1923, Page 15

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CUSTOMS RBVUfUI, (IV tttW»-*W»a Umtramak Mm x*. <m* MELBGUBJfIS, The Customs nine monflw w« fiSiflUjQQQt id £ 4,284,1)00 ■ above the £4,648,000 above the previous poading period. * u "i f|fj The postal Mvenue fciraato by £21,000. '■> 1 •f • • jj r |llf| QUEENSLAND COTTON BKISBAOTi, *95,%. J|f The Director of Cotton Ooltura. nates the Queensland yield loof jilify current year at 16,000 bales, ttmfy-tyjt'XWl. next year at 40,000 bal«a. Ths fotWß*;* ,4 prospects of the industry are bright. Provision is being tuaue to exte«4 the rawing **ftk t# produce adequate <pa»ttties pI , glasses of seed unqer expert sdvica, *, . • ■ ■ mm*m ** ' i AN SXPORT BMBARGO. *, SYDNEY, Apfii «,. , -ft A Customs proclamation la being iiaued strictly prohibiting the export of Australian wild birds. their plumage, • j' skins, or eggs. This is the of disclosures that thousands ot TaJte- <, able birds have been exported «»<Wfr >* circumstances involving cruelty. J REDUCTION OP LICENSES,, " * SYDNEY, April '#-X The Licenses Reduction Board in the. v Wammerawa electorate, embracing »♦ - towns of Wellington, Mudgae, and , Dubbo, has cancelled thirty-threeiwri . \ *;■ and five wine licenses. Since the \ was instituted, licenses in various dis- ; triets have been materially reduced. , : SOLAR OBSERVATIONS. MELBOUBNE, April' 0- „fVv-' Professor Duffleld, of the University * * •< College, Beading, has arrived. i / '-" enquiring into the prospects of ftstap* * y'ib lishijug a solar observatory, and ; r J; that it is imperative that an torv should be founded fitfcwf i» traua ?r New Zealand. - D*ou<am eo«■*«** &&&, A# % 3 The '** ib * $$ states that #O-fain J&« catchment am-' Th» (sat«a«t *4 voir has been tortbsr-daplttki