AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 97, 22 April 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] SIR -.CHARLES LUCAS

MELBOURNE, April 22. Sir Charles Lucas, head of the Dominions Department of the Colonial Office, has iaraived here. He will visit Tasmania :next week. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. SYDNEY, April 22. Parry," a well-known solicitor, has ■bemx arrested on a charge of stealing '. large sums-of money, the property of the trustees of the Grand Lodge of IXruids. LIVE STOCK RETURNS. MELBOURNE, April 22. A return issued by the GoveraKmenit Statist- showis that owing to the dryness of the last year the shrinkage in live stock represented a money loss of nearly £3j000,000. ACQUITTED, SYDNEY, April 22. Rosser and Lyons, who were, accused ■of .maliciously damaging the railway line ait Broken Hill recently, weire acquitted at Albury. the jury stating that the evidence was not strong 'enough to convict them. RAILWAY ACCOMMODATION. SYDNEY, April 21. The Labour Congress resolved in ;favor of only one class of railway accommodation. The opinion was expressed if hat most accidents were the :result of <:ovexcrowding of the secondclass carriages. AH should be levelled .up to the innst-class standard.