AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10781, 1 June 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) PRTCE OF A HAIRCUT. Received June 1, at 8.5 a.m. Sydney, June 1The hairdressers have decided to postpone indefinitely the date of raising prices owing to a lack of unanimity. FREE HARBOR FERRIES. Sydney, May 31. Mr Griffith informed a deputation that he was opposed to free harbor ferries, hut the other inpmbera of the Ministry favored them. PURSUIT OF A BURGLAR. Received June 1, at 10.20 a.m. , t Sydney,. May 31. The police supposed burglar after an exerting • chase over the roofs of the Metropolitan Hotel and adjoining buildings in Goulburn street. THE UNWRITTEN LAW. ' - Sydney, May 31. Mir Holman is considering a law making misconduct a- j^ife/diving with her husband a cnmuialtvoffence. He states that he cannot sanction the so-called unwritten _ law where: aggrieved husbands take='aqtion-.in thoir own hands. STRYCHNINE IN MAIL BAGS.' Melbourne, May 31. The sorters at the Buchan post office have been rendered' ill through the .presence o_f several broken bottles o' strychnine in >-tne> mail bags. The presence of the bottles is a mystery. VICTORIAN SURPLUS. Melbourne, May 31. The acting Federal ■> Treasurer , estimates the surplus *"at'half a million. THE CHURCH AND THE CORONATION. " Sidney, June 1. Archbishop Wright, 'in entreating churchmen to attend service on Coronation Day, declared that tlie reign may be fraught with crises which mav affect our destiny as an empire. SHIPMENT OF CHINESE. Sydney, June 1. The Japanese steamer Kumano Maru lias arrived with 207 Chinese passengers ; from Kongkong. .. This. is-considered evidence of the breaking of the boycott. ..,.,.

SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS. , .y -_- Sydney,' June 1. An effort is being made to obtain an expression of"^nblic' v opinio.n regvding Sunday picture shows.

MILLIONS OF ACRES OF STANCH. Melbourne, June 1.

;The Federal Government is lesting the suitability for starch of the •• ild rice iu the Northern Territory* vhere there are minions of acres of it.