AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17333, 3 December 1919, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RETURN OF ANZAC LEADERS.

RECOGNITION OF WAR SERVICES.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Reed. 10.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 2.

The Melbourne University will confer the honorary degree of LL.D. upon General Sir W. R. Birdwood and General Sir John Monash, who are now on their way to Australia, in recognition of their war services.

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY. A CHAIR OF MEDICINE. (Reed. 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY Dec. 2. Sydney University has created a new chair and professorship of medicine, to which Dr. A. E. Mills has been appointed.

SHALL-FOX IN CANADA. QUARANTINE PRECAUTIONS. (Reed. 12.30 am.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 2. The quarantine authorities are advised that there has been an extensive outbreak of small-pox in Canada. Precautions will be taken. INTER - STATE CRICKET. . NEW SOUTH WALES LEADING. ..(Reed. 12.30 a.m.) BRISBANE. Dec. 2. In the inter-State match between New South Wales and Queensland, New South Wales scored 325 runs for a loss of seven wickets in the second innings, and declared the innings closed. Tozer made 103 and Ratcliffe 107. Queensland, in the second innings, had lost one wicket for 48 runs, when rain caused an adjournment. [In the first innings New South Wales made 300 runs and Queensland 236.1

NORTHERN TERRITORY.

REPRESENTATION IN SENATE.

MELBOURNE. Dec. 2.

The Federal Government has announced that it will give the Northern Territory a representative in the Senate, who will be entitled to speak and vote on all questions relating to the Territory.

BASIC WAGE CONTROVERSY.

GOVERNMENT'S DECISION.

SYDNEY. Dec. 2.

Although not abandoning the principle of the Children's Maintenance Bill the Government has decided to accept the Board of Trade's declaration of a, basic living wage of £3 17s.

DAVIS CUP TEAM. BROOKES APPOINTED CAPTAIN. SYDNEY. Dec. 2The Australian and New Zealand tennis championships have been postponed to January 21. Brookes has been appointed captain of the Australian side for the Davis Cup. WAR CANTEEN PROFITS. DISTRIBUTION TO DEPENDANTS. MELBOURNE, Dec. 2. The Government has decided to distribute the canteen profits to dependants of deceased soldiers. TROPICAL DISEASES. EXPEDITION FROM LONDON. SYDNEY, Dec. 2. An expedition from the London Tropical School of Medicine has arrived, en route I to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, to ini vestigate tropical diseases.