AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8685, 2 December 1899, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Electric Telegraph -Co»yright-Unlt«d Pteu Association.

PERTH, Dial. lne .Council rejected a motion that the Commonwealth Bill as amended by the Premiers' Conference and as amended by a belect Committee be sent to the people, also a further amendment that the Bill with only the Seleot Committee's amend, ments be sent to the people. Deo. 2. -As the result of the decision of the Legislative Couooil not to send the Commonwealth Bill to the people in either torm, a scheme is mooted for presentine a petition to the Queen to grant the Northern goldhelds separation. SYDNEY, Dec. 1. . iha Postmaster-Genernl arrived at a conditional arrangement with the Eastern Extension Company to extend the present contract to cover a period till the construction of the Paoifio Cable. It is understood some modifications have been made in the old terms. The arrangement has yet to be submitted to Cabinet. Intense heat ia being felt in the country. To-day was the hottest December day in Sydney for 28 years, the thermometer being 102 in the shade. Deo. 2. -Bishop Julius, interviewed, said that whereas in Victoria there was heavy betting and gambling in the worst form, in New Zealand the worst form of gambling disappeared under the totalisator but Still it was almost universal thare. Women bet as freely as men. On the whole, he feared the totalisator was a great school of gambling. Several more destructive fires havt occurred in the country. A large sawmill and electric light plant at Narrabari were burned. Several earth tremors have been felt in the Hay distiiot. MELBOURNE, Deo. 1. A young electrician named Louering has been arrested iv connection with the attempt to wreck a train. He confessed. Another youth named Johnson was also arrested as an accomplice, and he too confessed. A search of Louering's home revealed a number of bombs in process of manufacture, and stencil plates with the word " Anarchism." BRISBANE, Dso. 2. The Police Commission report has been tabled. It recommends departmental changes, including the addition of 25 men to the force. It considers that the chief inspector is out of touch with his duties, and recommends his retirement. Dealing with the Gatton and Oxley murders, the Commission consider that there was a lack of cohesion and efficient organisation, but a great mystery surrounds the Gatton tragedy, and it doea not follow that if there had been the highest efficiency the murderers would have been discovered.

The Gem tells of one of the moat wonderful farina in the world, whioh is situated in Canada. Its peculiarity lies ia the faot thab everything is worked by electricity. Two waterfalls withiu the bounds of the farm, some 60ft and 180 ft high, furnish the motive power, a central power-houea being erected near, and the current is transmitted by wires to every available place on the farm. The ohurns and other necessary implements havo electric motor attachments. I A motor of 10 horse-power works a mowing machine, and another works a log saw, while the house, barns, and grounds of the farm are illuminated by the oleotrio light. The owner declares that he saves some .£SOO in labor annually.