AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

STUD SHEEP SALES. SYDNEY, July 8.

The stud sheep sales were continued. Bidding was again very keen. The two days’ sales realised £37,175.

DOUBLE SUICIDE. MELBOURNE, July 8. At the inquest on Pasqualon and Viviers (who were found dead in a Hat), the Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to cocaine, selfadministered.

SUGAR CROP,

MELBOURNE, July 9

The season’s sugar crop in Queensland will amount to 350,000 tons unrefined. About 50 thousand tons will be available for export.

COKE WORKERS’ DISPUTE. SYDNEY, July 9,

After consideration of the position of the» coke'workers, employed at Atthoscins iron and steel works at Lithgow, the Chairman of the Coke Industry Special Tribunal ordered the men to return to work.

NEW GOLD REEF,

SYDNEY, July 9.

The discovery of a rich gold reef four feet wide, is reported from Calafat. Prospects by dollying, give ten ounces of gold per ton. Two other finds assaying betweenj eight and ten ounces per ton were recently made in the same locality.. DETAINED STEAMSHIP. PERTH, July 9. The trouble of the steamer Kyogle continues: It is feared that unless the dispute is settled in time to allow the vessel to land fuel supplies at the unattended lighthouses on the northwest coast the lights will go out and shipping will be endangered. SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC PROBLEM. SYDNEY, July 8.

The City Surveyor, in a report, states that thoroughly to reconstruct and make the streets of Sydney fit for traffic, he will require a staff of University graduates in engineering. It will cost ten million sterling, and will take twenty years to complete.

A MURDER CHARGE

MELBOURNE, July 8.

At the inquest on’ the girl Dodds, Mrs. Dodds was committed for trial on a charge of murdering her daughter. The police gave evidence that on arrival at the house, Mrs. Dodds said: “I have a job for you at last. I am sorry I did not finish the two of us.” She confessed she battered the child’s head with a hammer.

VITAL STATISTICS.

SYDNEY, July 9

Vital Statistics show the population of the City of Sydney and suburbs, numbered 981,400 on December 31 last, a nincrease of twenty-five thousand during the year. The actual city population was 109,970. The number of marriage contracts during 1923 was 9734, which was 5 per cent below the average for the past five years. Births registered l totalled 21,990, comprising 11,261 males and 10,729 females, which was five per cent below the average of the past five years. There were 9,390 deaths, which was eight per cent below the same average, except the influenza year of 1919. The number of children who died under one year of age, was 1,405, or 69.3 per thousand. Births and deaths through cancer decreased by three per cent in comparison with the 1918-1922 period.