AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 133, 3 December 1906, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[i-hess association*.) (Received December 3, 9.8 a.m.) THE PERTH INSURANCE WAR. PERTH, This Day. The insurance war continues unabat'cd.' ' Tho'tity Council has injured property to tho extent of £20,000 with the Alliance Company for three years at fivepence per cent. <■ A PARLIAMENTARY JUBILEE. HOBART, This Day. The Jubilee of Parliamentary Government in Tasmania was celebrated on Saturday. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. SOCIALIST CANDIDATES DEFEATED. ADELAIDE, This Day. A feature of the city municipal elections was the defeat of the Socialist candidates for nearly every seat. COPPER BORING. ADELAIDE, This Day. Owing to the improved prices copperboving operations have restarted in tho Kapunda mine, wnich has not been worked for twenty-five years. GAMBLING LEGISLATION. MELBOURNE, 2nd November. Mr. Bent, /State Premier, says that the Licensing Bill and Gambling Suppression Bill must bo passed, or the Government will go out of office. A SCHOONER MISSING. PORT DARWIN, Ist December. The schooner Envy, with Captain Strachan and his wife on board, is missing. The vessel left to visit the wreck of tho Australian a fortnight ago, bnt failed to reach tho scene. TENNIS TOURNAMENT. NEW ZEALANDER DEFEATED. MELBOURNE, 2nd December. In tho lawn tennis championship conteat Brooke beat Wilding, 6—0,6 —0, 6—4,6 —4, 9—7.9 —7. In tho gentlemen's doubles Brookes and Wilding beat Dunlop and Heath. BOATING FATALITY. MELBOURNE, 2nd December. The Victorian Rowing Association's regatta was terminated suddenly owing to the swamping of a four-oared boat belonging to the Mercantile Club, by which ono of the crow named Hoof was drowned.