AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 23 July 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW SOUTH WALES' FLOCKS. BY ELECTIiTC TELECKAPII COI'YBIGHT. I'KU UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received July-23, 9.15 a.m. SYDNEY, July 23. Ti:.e Government Statistician, estimates the. number of ewes in, New South Wales to he 18,703,000, a, decrease ot' 214,(XX), and l -the* win'ter lambing to pi'cduce 7,184,000 lambi:, a decrease. of 297,000, while tlhe spring cre'&e© of 537,000 compared with 1 last lambing will- produce 3,837,000, an invear. TASMANIA'S GOVERNOR. Received julv 23, 10.20 a.m. HOB ART, July 22. The House of Assembly on. 'the motion of Mr G'iblira (it. Labo.ritc) unanimously resolved' tlh-ab as a result of the dc'. i,sio;n of the Imperial authorities regarding the recent eou»titutioiiiU d;iiifbu.'Jty :it was would' not feel' bound by any precedent to cover 3ii.s--cori:i-ecfcioiii with 'Tasmania. The resolution, was presented to.Sir W. G. El.lisoiiHMa>c.artney.

BOORABIL LAND CHARGES. Rreived July 23, 9.50' a.m. SYDNE Y, Ji'ily. 03. _P.irTi-ani.on t has passed..an!. Bill widening the nower.7 of' the judge who -is -inquiring into the Jtoorabft-lfflid' charir/:n 'to -{f;« full power of a 'Supreme Court .judge. NEW COUTH WALES POLITICS. SYDNEY, July 22. In the Legislative Assembly ..Mi' Wade's (Leader of the Opposition) amendment demanding an inquiry into or the withdrawal of Hon. \V. A. Holir.an's (Premier) charges against the Speaker, and Mr James' amendment that members of Parliament should not act as land agents, were negatived by 45 votes to ?5. The Addrcvss-in-Rcply was adopted. The Premier moved preliminary motions respecting 2-6 Bills, of which notice had -previously been given.

SMALLPOX epidemic. SYDNEY, July 22. Three cases of smallpox were reported to-day. - SYDNEY'S HALFPENNY PRESS. SYDNEY, July £2. A halfpenny four page daily i-iaper, under the iit'c of 'The Call,' has started publication in Sydney. It explains that it is not a Labor daily, hut just a political sheet, not quite as partisan as tho 'Sydney Morning Herald' or the 'Daily Telegraph,' but frankly partisan most of the time. It will give facts and happenings' which will interest the fusion party and which the other daily papers suppress. * TWEED BAP. FATALITY. SYDNEY, July 22. The bodies of Messrs Arnold and I'iggott, who were missing lis tho result of tlio Tweed Bar fishing party disaster, have been found. Both were naked and much decomposed. Sharks had not touched t'l'.c bodies. MARGARINE. SYD*FA\ July 22. "■ Mr O'Callnghan, chief of the dairy branch of the Department of Agriculture, addressing the Dairy Fatuitem* 'Conference.. urged tho prohibition, of the manufacture or importr.t.on of margarine. 'A GENEROUS DONATION. SYDNEY, Jiilv S3. Mro Annie Carroll l! 'as 1 doratedi £1(100 to'the 1 Ladies' Bene vole,n'fc Society for the- endowment of the Renwick Hospital for Children.

INQUIRY DEMANDED. SYDNEY. July 22. Tn ihe course of, the debr> L <> in the Legislative Assembly Hon. J. Perry i'By:"on), a member of the TotaKsafcor Comaw&sion, demanded a searching ino«i'r.v i«:to co'iuno'it-, m vJo. by Hon. W. A. Hr'niwi (Premier. 1 ! rcp/ml,iijg members of 'the Commission. In. the course of coiimierV, m-Ving at the .i.npiintment.of a Royal Mr IJoJmail nail -ma'l?- wof words: "Alir"."t nn inoov- eivabl" rloeroe of (Vi;ii lavity that a- man. should not only corrupt himself, but should' fit as am instrument for the corrUDivo'i of oilier moil." The «x-Xf. ; nister denied Vhat any athad .her** made to ir/flucrrc™ vote; on the Commission, and lie wanted an inmiiry i"' orrW to sati-rfy the. commniK'y that the charges wore unfounded,