AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15923, 8 May 1912, Page 10

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. v THE LORD MAYOR OF SYDNEY. SYDNEY, May 7. The new Lord Mayor favours continuing his predecessor’s progressive programme of improving the city. ACCESSION DAY. The shipping and city were gay with bunting yesterday in commemoration of liis Majesty’s accession to the Throne. FEARS OF DROUGHT. Continued dry weather in the "Western districts is creating fears of drought. Stock are being removed. COMMONWEALTH’S POPULATION. MELBOURNE, May 7. The official estimate of the population of the Commonwealth at the end of December last was 4.558,707. THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET. The terms under which New South Wales has undertaken to build the cruiser Brisbane and three destroyers provide that the Commonwealth will supply the umvrought material necessary arid import to New South Wales all the other building material. EIGHT-HOUR DEMONSTRATION. . BRISBANE, May 7. A feature of the eight-hour demonstration was the absence of bands, due to many of the bandsmen having acted as special constables during the strike. SMALL-POX. The steamer Changsha has arrived at Thursday Island from the. East with one of the Chinese crew suffering, it is supposed, from small-pox.