AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18572, 26 November 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Teleerapli—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY. November 25. - Hot weather prevails throughout tlie Commonwealth. In Sydney yesterday tho thermometer registered 98, the hottest November day since 1913. Mr TV. M. Hughes has been presented with n.n address of gratitude and it cheque for £25,000 for services rendered to the soldiers and the Empire-

Giving evidence before a Select Committee on Agriculture, the French bacteriologist, Francis Ray, representative of the Pasteur Institute, said that ho could have combated the recent plague of mice with a virus, which is on sale in France. The virus produced a disease in rats and mice which killed them in from eight to fourteen days. He also claimed that he could successfully inoculate pigs against hog cholera and swine fever. The Royal Commission inquiring into parliamentarians’ salaries recommends that they should lie increased to £BSO yearly for ordinary members and £ISOO for Ministers, with the exceptions of the Chief Secretary and Attorney-Gen-eral, whose salaries should be'increased to £IBOO, and the Premier, £2500.