INTERCOLONIAL
MELBOUENE, April 5
Experts are to be engaged to investigate the prevalence of nodules in Australian beef.
Tlie Federal Government is issuing an open invitation to the city designers of the world to compete for the £3OOO that is to be offered in prizes for a suitable scheme for the Federal capital. Twenty models of the site have been prepared, and these will be exhibited in convenient centres throughout the world for the benefit of the competitors for the prizes. April 6.
Mr King O’Malley has decided to enforce the law against those who have withheld information in regard to the census.
Mr Fisher will draft the Commonwealth bank proposals while in England. The
States will be merely competitors against the present banks. April 7.
Mr Fisher, when asked regarding the cable comment that the colonial Premiers could not visit Dublin as guests of the corporation owing to the latter having declined to present an address to the King, said he knew nothing about the matter, and did not wish to dis cars :t. In the course of a public address the Chief Justice (Sir John Madden) significantly remarked that judges should not talk too much. There were plenty of other persons to take up controversial subjects. Judges should be outside that sort of atmosphere, and should live in a calmer one. April 9. The ordinances adopted for the government of the Northern. Territory show that local residents are not to have any voice in the management of affairs. An. administrator, assisted by a council of advice, will be the nominal head of the territory, whose affairs will be administered from Melbourne. April 10. Irish blight has spread practically all over the State. It has been decided that it is useless to quarantine further disSYDNEY, April 4. The Whangape encountered a gale, and a number of horses and cattle aboard we :, e knocked about. Three horses were killed. Advices have been received that the Federal-Houlder Company is augmenting itd Australian line with three 14,000-ton five masted steamers, fitted with all the latest improvements, to run via South Africa to the West of England. The sixth annual report of the Government Savings Bank shows a prosperous year. The depositors’ balances increased by £1,887,598, and the total gross profits increased a. little over Is 6d per cent., while the expenses decreased Is 3d per cent. The home savings hank system, was successfully inaugurated, 5631 boxes being issued. The depositors’ balances at the end of last year totalled £15,295,697, compared with £13,391,222 at the’end of the previous year.
The total advances under the Advances to Settlers Act amounted to £905,000; During the year 622 advances, representing £123,000, were repaid in full.
The census collectors had some curious experiences in the various cities rounding up the slum and park dwelleia in other districts, each one of them representing 25s a bead to the State revenue. April 5.
The manager of the Dutch Packet Company has received a cablegram stating that the reports of the plague in Java'are exaggerated. A few oases of disease, the nature of which has not been determined, occurred at Malang, but were confined to natives.
- There is ,a possibility of the French line of mail steamers ceasing to call at Australian ports. A movement is afoot both in France and New Caledonia to have the line diverted to pass through East India to New Caledonia. Trade relations with Australia will be maintained by means of a branch line connecting Noumea with Sydney. . French files declare that every attempt of the company to compete with the great English companies had proved useless, and they argue that the new route will prove more profitable, and also shorten the voyage between Marseilles and Noumea. Lord Chelmsford has opened the biggest fair ever held in Sydney. The object is to raise £SOOO for the Prince Alfred Hospital Nurses’ Accommodation Home.
The Herald's correspondent reports that there is a great dearth of labour in New Caledonia, and that Japanese are being recruited, mainly because no other labour is offering.
The much-needed reorganisation of the postal .and telegraph service has commenced. A start is being made with the accountancy branch. Mr Hunt, the Commonwealth meteorologist, has compiled a table covering the Sydney rainfall returns for a period of 70 years. He claims that it proves that the 'theory of weather cycles -s altogether out of the question as a basis of forecasting the weather.
April 6. The Barrier Miners’ Association adopted a resolution condemning as traitorous the action of the M'Gowen Government in proceeding against the Lithgow and Carcoar miners under the Industrial Disputes Act, which it is pledged to repeal. Over 8000 entries have been received for the Royal Agricultural Show, which is a record. New Zealand is well represented on the list of stock. April 7. The captain of the Yawata Marti reports that there is a serious depression in trade in Japan. He is unable to account for it. Advices have been received that Sir H. S. Baden-Powell will visit Australia and New Zealand early next year on a short lecturing tour. Shares in the Sydney Ferries Company ' dropped 5s 6d to-day in consequence of the announcement regarding the State ferries scheme. Mr Mead, the irrigation expert, has examined the Barren Jack water scheme, and says the supply will accommodate* 300,000 people for a start. He says the Americans are the best irrigationists, and they best understand the conditions. Ha considers that those who are now migrating to Mexico would be glad to coma to Australia if inducements were offered to them. April 8. A sudden heat wave swept over the city. The temperature rose to 87deg. A hurricane at the Gilbert Group on March 27 swept the islands of Tanouti and Taputeonea, causing widespread devastation to the cocoanut plantations. Native villages were destroyed and several natives killed. April 9. The protracted drought in the Gilbert Islands has now broken. There have been many hailstorms. In the match for the sheep-shearing championship of New South Wales, Alexander, the present holder, defeated Fin. neran, of New Zealand, j April 10. ( There is an unprecedented Easter influx. Over 30,000 visitors have already invaded the city. ADELAIDE, April 4. Tire revenue for the nine months shows a comparative increase of £321,532. j The Federal Government has appointed iDr Basedow Chief Protector of the Aborigines in the ‘Northern Territory. | BRISBANE, April 4. I The excess of revenue over expenditure for the nine months was £591,385, an increase of £229,941 over the last corresponding period, j April 5. | Two men, Coats and Price, have been committed for trial in connection with the recent sticking-up cases in the Mount Outhbert district. I April 7.
A cyclone at Samaria (Papua) on March 26 last wrecked many small craft and did extensive damage. ( April 9. ! The Rev. Mr Warham, a leading Metho- | dist minister, who was suffering from { dengue fever and was delirious, walked into the sea at Sandgate and was drowned, | PERTH, April 5.
Dyason, one of the defendants in the late Chaffinch case, is claiming £IOOO from the Government to reimburse him
for expenses and, loss incurred through his arrest and having,.to defend himself. 'April 6.
One of the bullets fired by the Menziee gold robber cut the button off the connable’:: coat, and the other cut the joth over his shoulder. The constable, who was unarmed, returned to the police station, and went back with a companion. They discovered that the robber had returned and secured an abandoned bicycle and the bag containing the slimes. As the fugitive failed to obey their order to stand, the constables fired three shots at him, and he again abandoned the bicycle and slimes and escaped. April 7.
M‘Millaa, v formerly town clerk at Fremantle, who pleaded guilty to stealing four of the council’s debentures, valued at £2090, was sentenced to three years’ hard labour.
A similar sentence was imposed on Wilson, formerly accountant ‘ of the Fuller and Naughton Company, for embezzling £271 of the firm’s money, which he lost on horse-racing. April 9. The Government has decided to build a standard gauge railway from Perth u> Kalgoorlie, to meet the Federal line. The Attorney-general is not taking any further action in the Chaffinch conspiracy case.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 23
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