AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 15537, 6 July 1914, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

A DIRIGIBLE'S FLIGHT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 5. The first trip of Mr Roberts's Australianbuilt dirigible was made yesterday. 'Hie flight was over the city from the Show Ground. The dirigible" rose to a height of 6.000 ft and travelled at the rate of 14 miles an hour. A. slight mishap to the engine caused the aviator to descend. SMALLPOX. HEALTH AUTHORITIES IMPATIENT. MELBOURNE, July 5. Speaking on the declaration of A : ew Zealand a& being free from smallpox, Dr Cumpston, Federal Director of Quarantine., stated that it was a great pity that Sydney was unable to show ih© same satisfactory state as New Zealand. During the whole time that smallpox was raging in New Zealand, no case was imported into Australia.

Dr Armstrong, of the Victorian Board of Health, contradioted Dr Gumpston's statement, averring that one case discovered at Newcastle came from New Zealand. NEWCASTLE, July 5. Another oase of smallpox was discovered here yesterday. SYDNEY, July S. Five new cases of smallpox were reported to the authorities yesterday and three more to-day. INTERSTATE PRECAUTIONS. "~SYDNEY, July 6. On Friday the steamer Karoola arrived from Melbourne with a smallpox patient aboard. He went from Sydney to Melbourne a week ago, and stayed at the Coffee Palace, in Collins street. The place has been disinfected, and the Victorian health authorities are resuming their strict, examination of all people arriving by sea or overland from Sydney. SHEEP-BREEDING. MUTTQN~OB WOOL? SYDNEY, July 6. (Received July 6, at 9.15 a.m.) New Zealand exhibitors at the recent Sheep Show comment on the way in which the mutton-producing breeds have come to the front in Australia in the last few years, displacing merinos. DAY BAKING ABOLISHED IN MELBOURNE. -MELBOURNE, July 6. The operativo bakers have agreed to the master bakers' proposal to revert to night work, with a limitation of hours to eight per diem. SYDNEY, July 6. At a meeting the master bakers declared that day baking has proved disastrous. Public complaints are loud, while the output of bread has decreased by 15 per cent-. CRIMES OF VIOLENCE.

A MELBOURNE CASE. MELBOURNE, July 6. A man named Harrison, a visitor from the country, was shot in the face and robbed by a footpad on Princes bridge. His condition is serious. COMMONWEALTH CADETS. ANTI-MILITARISM FIGURES. MELBOURNE, July 6. During the five months from January to May 3,200 Senior Cadets were convicted for evasion of drill and other offences against tho Defence Act throughout the Commonwealth. D E AT.H BEFORE MARRI AG E. A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, July 6. A bridal party at Fitzroy were awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom, Herbert Wardley, when the police reported that his body had been found in the sea at St. Kilda. Deceased had made all arrangements for the wedding a couple of days previously. At his lodgings his wedding clothes were laid out, and written on a Christmas card was his will, leaving a.ll his money to his fiancee. Thore was nothing to show how his body got into the water. He was in good spirits when last seen.