AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11811, 21 December 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received December 21, at 10.1(1 a.m. Sydney. December 21. The Federal Small Arms Factory has turned out its first rifle. Tlie telegraphist's' request to revert to the old conditions, pending arbitration, is receiving consideration. Potatoes show an advance of from t\ to £2 per tons. The Public School-teachers' Union lias become affiliated to the Trades Council. The late Mr Justice Owen died intestate, leaving property valued at £.•13.897. Adelaide. December 21. Wheat-stackers have struck, and several grain vessels are held up. .Melbourne, December 21. The, House of Representatives lias adopted Air Bam ford's motion providing that representatives of any newspaper publishing a misleading or erroneous statement about a member, or reflecting on his name, conduct, or integrity, be excluded from the precincts of the House until an explanation or contradiction by the aggrieved member is given prominence equal to that of the offending article. -■ ' Received December 21, at 0.55 a.m. Melbourne, December 20. The New South Wales distribution of electorates scheme' has passed the Senate. Hobart, December 21." Two lads have confessed tha,t they placed the spikes on the railway line, at Evandale.

Perth, December 21. The Trew tragedy was the result of the husband's jealousy. 'He called his wife out'of the bar under a. pretence of speaking. to her, but immediately shot her and himself dead in the yard.