AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 July 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LORD HOWE ISLAND. BT KMiCTEIC TKLKURAPH COPYRIGHT, PKB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Rcccivcdi July 21, 9.10 a.m. SYDNEY, July 21. Mr Douglas Laurie '(zoologist e Liverpool University) as a result of r.e•.'.'eiairch work on Lord. Haw© Island says thai, il'io fauna shows affinity with -tlliiait •of New Zealand send the beeitleis with those of Australia, but it is impossible to say until all the data is worked! out whether the island was criminally joined to New Zealand or Australia. Ho dices .noi think it was ever pant of Polynesia. NEW SOUTH WALES AND MOTORS. Received Jink 24. 0.40 a.m. SYDNEY, July 24. The motor vehicle imports inito New ■Sc. nth AVi\!e« for the past lialif-year a,re valued a-fc £377,000. » RATS AND BUBONIC PLAGUE. >Jtece:vcd July 24, 8.-10 a.m. Ml' TjBOU I\iX E, July 21. The Quarantine sound,,'? a warrcbjj; note mV£?pird to ti:e danger of a re visitation of tl'ftC bubonic plague mii-ess st«:iig taken, to destroy <tlx> rapittly-iiieivawtf nuimher of rats. He urged the need or< f N&tms a Rrt-rrrc zone around all the morciki. porta,at ports. VICTORIAN POLITICS. Received Jul.v 24. 8.40 a m MELBOURNE, July 24. Tlie by-clc;i!inn for E?sciiid-'on.' which was rendered' vacant through M Wasn't? r<\sigmi,ti<v.i, resulted as follows : Mr Blackburn 'Lnh-'.r) ...S(i6.y Mr Ma.ntdl (Liberal) ... 7619 At the previous -election the Liberals won'with a majority c'f 2117. STEAMERS FOR 'FRISCO. Received July 21, <)..f» a-.m-MELROURXIC, July 21. T'ho /Government h?s intimated to Hie O. amber of Cinnner. that a regular direct steamship service which u- is hoped: will be pcrmfinciii'; has beem rami jrun»*.fd' between San. Francisco amd Melbourne. The fir.-t. steamer nill leave .ifelhotmve during the, prmrart mouth. MEN ANjD WOMEN'S PAY. Received July 24. 9.10 a.m.. . i!. , i SYDNEY. July 24. ■J» •the' Le-gi K.latiye A««e mbly. «M i- Solly's a-ftiendment to the Shops Rill providing equal nay for women and men was negatived. SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. „ SYDNEY, July 2.1. One cnce of smallpox was reported today. AM ARMED MERCHANTMAN. ' SYDNEY, July 23. , 1 1)0 elv Zealand Shipp »g Company's Ho'.o.ata has arrived on her maiden voyage. She canrici; two 4.7 guiiy for se.i -protection and two sots of wireless. N.S. WALES RAILWAYS. SYDNEY, July 23. At fl; to Farmers' Conference the Chief Coumiseioaer of Neiw South W .11 Co Railways prpiSeirticd -figur-os showing that the railway revenue ,since 1893 li.'td imrea-sed by' ]<;.| p W - cent, .i.'nl the imlctigo run- by 171 per cent., with proportionate increases in rolliii"' sloes and. the qua.niity cf traffic.