AUSTRALIAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 23

AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE, August 18. Mr Tate, Director of Education, reporting on his visit to New Zealand, says with regard to New Zealand that the system of education adopted there is worthy of consideration. He makes a number of recommendations for improving the accommodation and conditions of scholars and teachers. The Minister of Customs obtained a report on the opium smuggled in by Malays, and largely used by aborigines in Northern Queensland, causing a great deal of immorality and deterioration, besides a loss of revenue. In the Legislative Assembly a motion for the second reading of the Totalisator Bill was negatived by 27 votes to 20. SYDNEY. August 19. The bodies of William Leach and Lena Leach, cousins, have been found dead at Micholago. They had been “keeping company.” It is supposed that the man shot the woman and then himself. An application has been made to the Registrar under the Arbitration Act to canoe! the registration of the Journeyman Coopers’ Association under the Arbitration Act, on the ground of the inadequacy of the rules. The case arose through a refusal to admit to membership an applicant -owing to his failure to give satisfaction in what is alleged to be an unfair test prescribed by the rules of the society. The Registrar has given the society ten days to amend the rules so an to afford reasonable /facilities for admission. Ho said the Legislature never intended that the right to share the benefits of industrial unionism should bo made subservient to the maintenance of a standard c-f efficiency in a trade for any purpose. The Country Storekeepers' ■Convention ban adopted a resolution in favour of a system c-f trading licenses and the exclusion of Chinese. SYDNEY, August 20. At the inquest on the bodies of William Leach and Lena - Leach, cousins, found dead at Michelago, the jury found that the male deceased murdered the woman and then committed suicide. SYDNEY, August 21. Paderewski’s last recital was marked by an unprecedented scene of enthusiasm. The huge audience accorded to the artist a great ova 1 ion. He leaves for Auckland on Wednesday. ■ BRISBANE, August 19. At a meeting of the Queensland National Bank, the chairman stated that the proposal for repaying the Government tine* amount due under the reconstruction scheme had been agreed to. The general financial outlook, be added, was better than it had been for years. At the Rifle Association meeting G. Bradley and A. Ferguson tied, with a score of 219, for the .King’s Prize. Bradley won the shoot-off. Another case of plague is reported in the city. BRISBANE, August 21. A. woman has been attacked by plague in the same house where a case occurred last Friday.