AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 29 August 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE REPORTS.

BY CABLE-PEES» ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT

i SYDNEY, Aug. 28. The steamer Ellenga, with 1100 New Ztealanders, sails direct for New Zealand. Mr Blow (the Government agent) arranged with the Government to provide special trains to give the boys a chance of seeing Sydney, if coaling tame permitted.

! \ A meeting of the New South Wales i Alliance earned a resolution against the Uovernment's new licensing proposals unless provision is made to take, during the present session of Parliament a Jocal option vote on a bare majority basis, also against the adoption of the Victorian system of licensing which curiously enough, Victoria is dropping after the next elections in favor of the system now in existence in New South Wales, except that it provides for compensation being paid by the trade instead of on the time method. Replying to the press agitation for cheaper cable rates, the managing direc+vr °*sP e Amalgamated Wireless states that his company has applied for a Government license to establish a wireless station in Australia, i n conjunction with the Marconi Company, to conduct a wireless service with England Ine company is prepared to handle all classes of messages at one-third less tnan the existing cable rates, and hopes ,to make substantial reductions as the trafnc increases

M wt, MELBOURNE, Aug. 28. Mr Webster states that he has received no notification of the reported inS£ on/J° reduce the cost of cables. Ihe Government intends to prohibit iu exlK)rt of hides and leather until the Australian demands are satisfied. Three men were killed and two men and one woman injured as the result or » motor tyre blow-out. The car crashed into a tree in Hi 2 h Street, Bendigo.

The Senate read a first time the Alien s Registration Bill, which provides for the compulsory registration of all aliens and families in the Commonwealth. It defines alien as any person over the age of sixteen not of .British nationality Changes of address must be notified and hotel and lodcdnghousekeepers must furnish all particulars of aliens on their premises. Hon. D. S. Oman (Victorian Minister of Agriculture), informed a deputation from the Chamber of Agriculture that shipping space for 4,125,000 carcases of frozen meat would be available during tne next three months.