AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PREBB ASSOCIATION.] MELBOURNE, Nov. 12. At inter-State bowls, Victoria defeated New South Wales by 111 points to'B3. ' : •■ ■, ■■• "■■ ■. ' ■'■.; ; .'■:

The negro canvict King, after stabbing the warder Curtis, was placed in a straight-jacket. He managed to rid himself of it, and attacked Warder Sullivan with his cell pannikin, inflicting a nasty wound behind his ear. King was overpowered after a great. struggle. - ■, According to a statement presented to the Senate, there are 31,000 Asiatics in Australia.

An amendment to alter the Constitution to give permanency to the financial agreement between v the States and the CommonwealtE was defeated in the House by one vote. A number of Government supporters joined with the Labor Party in their attempt 'to secure the alteration. : The Mount Lyell returns from October 7th to November 3rd inclusive show that 28,862 tons of ore, treated also with 17 tolls of purchased ore-converters, produced 664 tons :of blister copper, containing: copper, 666 t<ras; silver. 56,454 ounces; gold, 1347 ounces. The half-yearly report of the company \ shows net profits; amounting to £739,850. A dividend of Is 3d per sKare and a bonus of 6d paid in June absorbed £105,000. In the tennis championships, Brookes beat Heath by 6-2, 6-3, 6-0: and Wilding beat Campbell l>y $-1, mi.— ' Z\& M& miners have gone out". This is the first western mine to join the strike.