AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 July 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

—■ ' ADD FIDE IN GRAIN STORE II OABM— PBXBR ABHOCI4IIOIV—COPYRIGHT MELBOtTRNE, July 8. The fire was at- Railton’s, seed merchants, South Melbourne. *•' WEMBLEY AND AMUSEMENT TAX. MELBOURNE, July 8. Mr. Bruce has joined in die protests against the proposal to impose an amusement tax on admission to- the Empire Exhibition on the grounds that it-would remove any hope of a Surplus.

SYDNEY {-STREET SCHEMA SYDNEY, July 8. The city surveyor, in a report,‘states that to thoroughly reconstruct and make the streets of Sydney fit for traffic he will require a staff of university graduates in engineering. It will cost £10,000,000 iand take twenty vears to complete. " VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, July 8. The State Parliament has opened. Mr Bowser was re-elected Speaker unopposed, The Governor, in his speech, said that until the complex position created, at. the elections had been cleared up he considered it unnecessary to present a programme of legislation in detail. A meeting of the Liberals rejected the Country Party’s terms for the formation of a composite Ministry, stating that they were out.of all proportion to the strength of the Countrv Party. DRUG VICTIMS. MELBOURNE, July 8. At the inquest on two drug victims, Alberto Pasqual'on and Louise Viviens, who died in hospital shortly after being found in an East Melbourne flat, the coroner returned a verdict that death was due to cocaine self-administered.