AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• DEBATE ON SOCIALISM. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] i '(Received February 24, 10.17 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. ,Mr. G. H. Reid, Leader of tho the Federal Opposition, has accepted a challenge from Mr, W. A. Holman, a member Of the State Assembly, for a' public debate ofi the question of Socialism, with the «tipaktion that Mr. Holmtfn represents tho Labour party. OLYMPIAN GAMES. s"YDNEY, This Day." Til* Olympian Games Committee nt Athens has remitted £100 towards the expenses of Australian representatives nt the gathering. Their hotel expenses will also bo paid. THE PLAGUE. I'ERTH, This Dnv, Twy> allies c-f plague at Gernldton havo endld fatally, TARIFF COMMISSION. MEIiotJRNE. Thil Day, The Tariff Commission is taking evidence In regard to th© timber industry. Witnesses strongly favoured higher duties. railway"enquiry. *l „ , « Thto Day. The Royal Commission of Enquiry toto the alleged Inharmonious relations subsisting between tho Rnflwny Commissioners has commenced it« sittings. Mr, Oliver, Chief Commissioner, gave lengthy evidence, chltfiy Covering correspondence on the mutter already published. StfNttSNOJB ON A SWINDLER, A* « i L S YIj" NEY ' This Day. At Penrlth yesterday George Thomas received aentenees of one, two, nnd three months' imprlaoirmont respectively on throe oharges of obtaining money with lnt«nt to defraud. Accused represented hlnwelf as heir to a fortune with an Incomo of four thousand a year, and on the strength of pro mises of munifleient donations to benevolent «odeffces and othei 1 institutions, succeeded in deceiving many influential person* n Sydney and elsewhere. Jf 0 obtained considerable loans, Jived lavishly and victimised hotolkcepors and trades' people- wholesale STRUCK OFF THE ROLL* .. t SYDNEY, 83rd Fobruary. A. M, Mlllnrd, A member of the Legislative Assembly, appealed to the Full Court against his recent sentence, principally on the ground thnt the ovldonco nt the trial disclosed no felonious intent to convert money to lik own use. The fippeftl wai dismissed. Tho Court nlso directed that milliard's namo should bo struck off the roll of solicitors. [Millflfd wns convicted last November of tho Inreeny of £6, the property of <i client, and sentenced to 'mx months' imprisonment, but, the scntenco was suspend, cd under the First Offenders Act.j NEW ZSALAVJVH METHODS MELBOURNE, 23rd Fobnmry. On the strength of what he saw during his recent visit to New Zealand of tho cfteose export trade from that colony. Mr, Swlnburn, State Minister of Agriculture, has arranged for a trial shipment of chewo to London.