AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10761, 8 May 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electiuc TKMXiH.wH —C()!'Vi:i(.;n.; (Pep. I'ut'ss Association.'. a -.HOSPITAL SATURDAY. Sydney.-■ .Mav G. The Ho,spita[ Salurdav colli etion amounted to Cl-L The returns are yet incomplete. JOURNALISTS AND A l! BITH ATIO.W .Melbourne. May G. The rr-j/istratioii oi tin- Australian Journaii.sL' A.-.-ociai!o:; urd»-r the Fed--ral Arbitration A<t ha- Oe--n granted. The Registrar .-:at'-..i that tin- only exclusions were e/liinrs-iti-ciile:" and d;b-;\ of staffs. O-ts of the application w< rgiven against the Sydney Neu-paper Proprietors' A -iaiion and the'.\ii!bouxia- Argils. OBITUARY. Received Mav ■>. at f/.-e' :\.i:\ Sv.h-.ev. Mav 7. Thomas E. Sru-rnvr (suddenly!. author and industrial aihitrator. He wrote "Flow AUDoii-ail Topped the Score. ' r CURSE OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL! Melbourne. May S. Mr Adamson, headmaster ni Wesley College, has forbidden a;;;.- member of the teaching staff to -play s'-nior tootball, nnd dtsailows bnat-iers to attend. He says that the- curse of large gate money is consequent on professionalism, which has caused the came to lose its Utility and purity, and that even women attending became raving maniacs. TASMANIA'S POPULATION. Hobart, May 8 The first count of the census returns gives the population of Tasmania ac 188,535. an increase of 16,060 in ten years. TUBERCULOSIS. Melbourne, May 8. The proposals at the recent Tuberculosis Conference included a scheme for anational campaign against consumption, including compulsory notification, facilities for the collection of information, legaL power to regulate home management and remove the dangerous into segregation, and financial assistance to wives and families.

PREFERENCE TO BRITISH GOODS. Melbourne, May 8.

Mr Hughes, referring to a recent cablegram on the subject, says that the extension of preference to British goods partly made in other countries would impair the basic principle on which preference is granted to Britain.