AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1672, 16 December 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

BY ELECTBIC TELEGBAPH —COPYRIQUT. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 16, 9.25 a.m.) A TENNIS TOUR. Sydney, December 16. The Australian Tennis Association has received an offer from Mr Wallis Myers to bring a representative English team to Australia next year. The. Association is communicating with the New Zealand Association on the matter. COST OF LIVING. Perth, December .16. The Arbitration Court, in increasing the wages of timber employees, held that the cost of living had increased 8s 3d per week in the past twelve months . THE STRANDED MARGIT. Adelaide, December 16. j The wrecked barque Margit was sold as she stands for £154, and her cargo for £24. A thousand bags of wheat, sold separately, brought £bi. AMERICAN RACEHORSES. Melbourne, October 16. Another shipment of American racehorses has arrived, comprising 20 lngFi-class animals, the majority of which were purchased by Mr Andrew Robertson, of Melbourne, being the balance of tho property of Dr. Leach of Kentucky. " ' SOME OTHER ITEMS. Sydney December 16. Judge Isaacs delivers his.judgment in the coal Tend case on "Wednesday. The Labour Council decided tnat a new # union will not be affiliated if there is another already competent > protect the interests involved. Melbourne, December 16. Tho House pasesd the tariff proposals after a continuous sitting of 38 hours. _ • A motor accident ocurred last Friday iii_ which several members of a police' band were thrown from a car in Camperdown. Constables Riddle and Ogilvie have since died. In the Assembly, Mr Watfc introduced a Bill to amend the Savings Bank Act, providing for tho exten6jp,n of the powers of commissioners, to enable them to cope with the threatened Commonwealth competition. ■ Extensive earth tremors were recorded ou tho 10th and Lfth inst.