UNDER AUSTRAL SKIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1346, 19 June 1911, Page 2

UNDER AUSTRAL SKIES.

FOUR YEA US iJ'OR FORGERY. LABOUR CONFERENCE. (Preua Association.—By Telegraph.— UopyrightJ. Auelauie, Saturday. For forging a cheque of £l6, a prisoner was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, the judge remarking it would be unfair if lie aid not in some tangible way recognise the .prisoner's skill and ability at deception. Mglbounie, Saturday. At the conference on the scarcity of labor, it was stated there ivero 1336 known vacancies for women that cannot bo lilled. The byc-olcction for Bendigo East resulted in an easy victory for Hampton, Labor candidate. •Mr Hughes agrees with the view expressed by Mr M'Kenna regarding imperial uniformity in naval training. Syd'noy, Saturday. The census of New South Wales is nearly 20,000 less than the statistic 1 cian estimated. Mr Carmichael thinks L the census is incomplete. i The footballers on the Wimmera arc reported to bo all well. ( In response to a suggestion by "the [ public meeting, the Herald has opened a Mawaon expedition subscription list. Hobart.fSatnrilay. The Union Company's hulk Nelson, stationed on the river Tamar, sank • ' with four hundred tons of coal.