AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15964, 8 July 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

QUEENSLAND SUGAR CROP, TURCHASE BY COMMOXWEALTH.: By Telegraph Association— Melbourne. July 7. The Commonwealth Government is taking over the Queensland sugar crop for the cuirent year, amounting to 120.000 ton?, and is arranging with the Colonial Sugar - Company to undertaks the refining and distribution. It is understood that the prica has been fixed at £25 a ton.

PROHIBITED EXPORTS. 4; (Received July 7. 8-49 p.m 1 Melbourne, July 7. ; A proclamation has been issued prohibit* | ing the exportation of fodder, oats, maizes bran and pollard. RACING PRIZE MONEY. (.Received July 7. 8-40 p.m.) Sydney, July 7. The Australian Jockey Club has distrii buted £97.544 in prize ironey during tha present season. : - / 2 BUTTER STILL RISING. MELBornxE, July 7. J'\ Butter has advanced to 2s per ib whol*> , j sale and 2s 3d retail, owing to a decreasa 1 in the imports from New Zealand. NEW HOURS FOR HOTELS. / Melbourne. July 7. /f~ i ! In accordance with the new Act, all j hotels wen closed at 9.50 iast night, and aid not open till iiinc o'clock this morning. ARCHBISHOP O'REILLY DEAD. _ Adelaide. July 7. The'death of Archbishop John O'Reilly, _;; is announced. ] } [The Most Rev. John O'Reillv had been 1 Archbishop of Adelaide since "1895. Ho j was bora a*. Kilkenny, in Ireland, in 1846 ; \ j and wis "dißitfd at the parochial school, _.j ; .St. Kiemnn's College, and All Hallows," M | Dublin. He was ordained priest in. 1869 : ;|S and arrived in Western Australia in 1870..»■' $| He was consecrated tho first Bishop of "\M Port Augusts in 1888.]' .0i