AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10629, 5 December 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

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. SAVINGS BANK BILL. Received December 5, at 1.12 a.m

Melbourne, December '3. In the Assembly, in moving the second reading of the Savings .Bank Act' Amending Bill; the' Treasurer stated" that the Credit Foncier .-system" had more than itself: o£'two' and'a-half millions advanced, only one ■ hundred was "in*-'default, and of the hundred; fifty-eight"' represented . interest. '. The Bill 'proposed to extend the system in order 4 to enable the people to build their own homes:

A RECORD SITTING. Adelaide, December 3. Sir Jenkin Coles has completed 21 years of service as Speaker of the Assembly and ,has not 'missed a single sitting.

TRAMWAYS DECISION. . •' Perth, December 3. . Justice Burnsido's decision regarding tramway overtime states that under no circumstances must".the men.be worked more than twelve consecutive hours The company's solicitor says the industry will be paralysed. LIMITING PRODUCTION. Received December -1, at 5.5 p.m. Sydney, December 3." The scarcity of farm laborers'is causing cane farmers to restrict their area of planting. IN THE AIT!. .- Melbourne, December 4. Cuguet, the aviator, rose at the Austral meeting, but the wind caught the monoplane and dashed it to the asphalted tennis court, and completely smashed the machine. Cuguet was uninjured. CATTLE PLAGUE. Received December.s; at 9.25 a.m. Sydney, December 5. Serious outbreaks of pleuro pneumonia have occurred among two big mobs of cattle at Albury. "TT'S NOT ALL GOLD TfIAT GLTTTERS." Perth, December 5. A telegram from the manager df the Great Chaffinch mines states that gold values have'yet to be found. This has been followed by almost a panic in the mining markets, and values fell all round.

THE PEARLING DISASTER. Perth, December 5. The boats lost in the"-Broome hurricane total 101. Nuinetorn are still missing. BALLOT FOR REPRESENTATIVES AT CORONATION. .Received December 5, at 10.10 a.m. Melbourne, December 5. Members of both Federal Houses will ballot lo choose 18 to reprcr-cnt Parliament at the Coronation. AUSTRALIAN FATA LIT! RS. Perth, December 5. The bodies of two men found (inthf beach near Perth have been identified. It is supposed that their tloalh was due to poisoning. They had evidently beendead for months-. A jealous Japanese fatally shot a French girl named Dufaiir and then altempted to commit suicide. QUEENSLAND'S GREAT WESTERN. Brisbane, December 5. In the Assembly the Great Western Railway Bill was read a second time.