AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 12 January 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph--06pSrright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)

SYDNEY, Jan. U. Last year there were 1430 petruons lor divorce in New South Wales, wmcb was, easily $ record, ■ Six hundred were held over for the new law term. The wool, sales are resuming on 31»t January. The serie© will comprise 120»000 bales.

The Hawaiian and American* swimmers were welcomed by the Lord Mayor and the swimming fraternity at the Town Hall. VV SYDNEY, This Day, Cabinet has agreed to finance the' 'New Zealand tour of the State Orchestra; Mr, Story, Premier 1 , has announced that as prohibition "Would cost'the State over twelve millions, apart from compensation to employee®, the, Qovernment has decided hot to taka a referendum this year. , Mr. Robert Barton, who was bom at Uhlristchu.rcH, was ’ re-elected _ Grand Master of the local Orange institution. : The. Presbytery o*f; Sydney unanimously' Adopted a resolution of protest against' tKe Governments decision not to take a poll on the question of prohibition.

Sydney statistics; fox 1920 show-that births totalled 22,-500, ■ and deaths -9500, showing that the birthrate ia improving compared with the , previous.. .year's figures;- : A groat proportion -of were accounted for by Heart diseise: pneumonia, and; cancer. Tie last' named continues to increase. It is officially estimated that, twenty per cent, of middle-aged people die of cancer in some form: or other.

MELBOURNE, This Day. _ Certificates involving seventeen ■ million sterling will be paid to fanners on Friday, by the Wheat Board, being the first payment of 2s 6d a bushel. PERTH, This Day. The ‘State elections will be- Hold in March. ■ : v .

BRISBANE, Day. C. ,T. Degarie left Sydney at eleven on Tuesday morning in a 376-Horse-power aeroplane. He arrived at, Brisbane, via, Grafton, at 6;3, ’the actual flying time .being four hours' .fifty minutes. !He is leaving Sunday morning, and will endeaifthur to reach Melbourne for dinner at night, HOBART, Jan. IL A fire at Alverstone destroyed the Town Hall.i three shops, v and a, furniture warehouse.- The damage is estimated at £12,000. "