AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. •TOTES" DECEIVED BY TELEPHONE. Muujockni.'j, July 20.- ;'i A telephone boy who sent a message from Fleming ton racecourse oh. .Saturday altered the Footseray Steeplechase- winner from " Error to Blrcjacket, and a number of tote" shops paid bets on it. The boy ' ha« confessed that a man formerly employed • by the Postal Department induced him to sei:d the wrong name,-promising hint £20 for doing it. When lie mot the man to -.'■ receive the- money, he was told that *oraebody had made tremble, awl he-could not ' have it. A LUCKY BOOTMAKER. ■ --,' : '"-\'i~:r : MixJJOtraxE. July 20. , ; A bootmaker named Petersen, .residing r in Melbourne, has received a bequest of .. ", £40,000 from his brother, a resident of | Denmark. " , A " PLACE" UNDER THE BETTING ■ ',:■. ACT.. Kyd.vly, July 20. In connection with the-recent two- up pro* secution, the .magistrate lias decided tii*t ■ the Military Reserve, Sydney, is not *» "place" within tho meaning of the Batting Suppression Act.

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. Sydnm, July £0. Of 1219 students who attended the recent examinations at Sydney University MS have passed. COLD SNAP IN SYDNEY. Sydney, July 20. The thermometer in Sydney this morning registered 29, the lowest July reading for 11 years. It was higher in the suburbs. Exposed water vrsus thickly coated with ice this morning. [During the present month Sydney has experienced both highest and lowest record shade readings for July— on Wednesday of last week, and 29 yesterday.] ' -• l__ ■ STRIKE OF SI6VKMAKKRS. Sydney, July £•>. More than one ■ hundred Btovcmakonn * .a« ployed by Mette's Company, Newtown, have struck as a protest against this introduction of piece instead of day work. ,