AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 222, 16 September 1909, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] CONSUMPTIVE TREATMENT.

MELBOURNE, Sept. 14.. The State Cabinet has placed £10,----000 on the Estimates for consumptivehomes. TO ENCOURAGE THE BIRTHRATE. 'SYDNEY, Sept. 15. The Sydney Assembly, by 27 to 1& votes negatived Mr Griffiths's motions in favour of a bonus of £5 to the parents of every baby born in the State*. CHILD MURDER. PERTH, Sept, 15. Martha Kendall whose arrest was; cabled on August 17, has been found guilty of the murder of a child named Arthur Morris, and has been sentenced, to death. Thomas Morris, the* father of the child was found not guilty, and was discharged. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.. SYDNEY, Sept. 16. A fire at Kempsey destroyed sevenr shops yesterday. . THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. SYDNEY, Sept, 16. In the Assembly Mr Wade, Premier, gave notice of his intention to, move for the surrender to the Commonwealth, of an area of approximately 800 square miles at Yass-Canberra for a site for a Federal capital.