AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 20

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

KEROSENE AN is) BENZINE. WHOLESALE PRICES REDUCED. SYDNEY, June 20. The Profiteering Court has reduced the wholesale prices of kerosene and benzine by Is per case —to 19s and 29s respectively. NIAGARA PASSENGERS. ANOTHER SMALLPOX CASE. SYDNEY, June 21. A further case of smallpox has been reported among the Niagara passengers at the quarantine station. It is the mother of the first patient. The contacts at present in quarantine number five. All are relatives of the first patient. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. ADELAIDE, June 21. Government lias definitely decided that there shall be no compulsory wheat pool for the next crops. anthrax poisoning. BRISBANE, June 21. A man has died in the general hospital from anthrax poisoning. He had purchased a shaving brush at a Japanese second-hand shop. The brush has since been boiled for nine hours, but the microbes were still active at the end of that time. COMMONWEALTH LIXER LAUNCHED. LONDON. June 20. Mrs Hughes launched the Lang s Bay, the second commonwealth liner, at Dalmuir.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

EARTH TREMORS.

MYSTERY EXPLAINED. SYDNEY, .June 22. It is now definitely established that last week’s earth tremors were caused by the destruction of guncotton, which had become obsolete, at Liverpool camp. As the result of complaint regarding the damage to buildings the explosions have been suspended. HOSPITAL MAINTENANCE. SYDNEY, June 22. Mr M‘Girr, Minister of Health, informed a deputation which asked assistance for a hospital that the Government proposed to legislate to compel employers and employees to subscribe for the upkeep of hospitals.

VICTORIAN RAILWAY REVENUE.

A DEFICIT ANTICIPATED. MELBOURNE, June 22. It is stated that the year’s railway revenue will amount to £9,500,000 to £10,000,000. It is anticipated that there will be a deficit of £400,000. CABIN ET RESIGN ATI OX. MELBOURNE, June 22. Mr Livingston, Assistant Minister of Agriculture, has resigned from the Cabinet owing to ill-health. A STEAMER MISSING. SYDNEY. June 23. All steamers in the Tasman Sea have been sent a wireless message to keep a look-out for the steamer Ganastota, which, it is feared, has met with a mishap. She sailed from Sydney on June 13 for Wellington, and has not answered anv wireless calls. MEAT FREIGHTS. SYDNEY . June 23. A conference of meat exporters, in urg ing a reduction of freights, passed a resolution —“ That, in consequence of the existing rates and the state of the London market. only an infinitesimal quantity of meat will be available for export during the next half-year. Furl her, if the freight is reduced by |d per lb, this conference is of opinion that 30,000 tons of additional meat will he exported."

SEDITIOUS LITERATURE

IMPORTATION PROHIBITED. MELBOURNE. June 23. A proclamation has been issued prohibiting the importation of iterature advocating the overthrow Tiv force of the established government,-, of the commonwealth or of any other civilised country. The prohibition also applies to any literature wherein sciif ions intention ] s ex pressed WHEAT POOL. MEL BOURN E. June 23. ft is unofficially stated that the Victorian Government has decided to discontinue the wheat pool.