AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PARADISE FOR SETTLERS,

VIEW OF LIBERAL M.P. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received September 16, 12.45 a.m.} ■ • Stoke*, September 15. ■'• The second division of the Empire Pair. liamentary Party has gone to Victoria. Mr. Stephen Collins (Liberal M.P. for Lambeth) has expressed" the opinion thatAustralia is a paradise for people desiring to go on the land. There may be a few poor in the big cities, but the country has 1 no poverty. All that is wanted is mora

A, reception "was held in the Town Hall • to-day in honour of the British M.P.'s. 55S There was a representative assemblage, in^-;-

eluding Mr. Cook (Federal Premier), Mr. I'--'. Fisher (Leader of the Opposition), Mr. ' Watt (Victorian Premier), and Lord Rich-•'' ard Nevill (representing the GovernorGeneral). Great enthusiasm marked the proceedings. ,

LOYAL TOASTS ; OMITTED.

CENSURE ON A MAYOR.

Melbotone, September 15,

The Richmond honorary magistrates have passed a resolution that in view of tile utterance of Mr. Webber, M.L.A., in dispensing with the loyal toasts at a recent Mayoral banquet at Richmond, they would refuse to sit on the Bench with him.

NATIONAL INSURANCE. ,\

PROTEST BY A DOCTOR.

Melbotone, September 15.

Dr. Ramsay Webb, in his presidential address to the Medical Association, referred to the proposed scheme of national* insurance. He said it was not evident that there was any widespread demand for the system, yet the demand was assumed as a matter of course.

The medical profession, which had an' intimate knowledge of the surroundings and home life of the working classes, could not but deny the existence of any considerable number so destitute as to justify the adoption of the scheme. *

THE SMALLPOX SCABS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received Stptembei 16, 12.45 ajn.) Sydnbt, September 15. There -were 12 cases of smallpox in the metropolitan area to-day.

TRAGEDY AT ADELAIDE.

Adelaide, September 15.

A man named Frederick Henry Stephens was found dead in a paddock in West Adelaide at two o'clock on Sunday morning. Three bloodstained bottles were found alongside his body. A woman -who •was seen in Stephens's company during the preceding evening has been detained. She says she remembers nothing of the occurrence.