AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15920, 4 May 1912, Page 11

AUSTRALIA.

I United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Coovrieht. SYDNEY, May 3. A £20,000 CAMPAIGN. A campaign with the object of raising £20,000 in ten days, to assist the Young Women's Christian Association's Building Fund, has been started. A SENSATIONAL STORY. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Mr Henry Willis, received through the post a package containing a cartridgo similar to those used in sparklet syphons. A letter accompanying, it stated that it was an explosive (jomb. CHURCH FEDERATION. HOBART, May 3. -The Presbytery of Hobart has adopted a resolution favouring the closer federation of all Protestant churches in preference to the present scheme of tho union of Presbyteriane, Methodists and CongregatioUalist*