AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

1 (Press Assn.-By' Telegraph.-Cbpyright.) (Received October 18, 11,30 a m } ' - f WSBANK,^ t §!efIB. A drought .is pvevaUing OV er a large ■ «. „ • • SYJ^E/Y, .October 17. ■ Wly;-- Hay« 6j ' and. Williams; for ™.r---t.'upatnig m-& strike/riot at . litlig^ir, uvo each -beevv sentenced to I^s moj&s' hard labor. Hatton Mas fbuhd iullty of attempting I*> derail .£ train on Bo*, kr.tf railway at Lithgow, and was sentenced to three years' hard 'labor. : M^jN-eilsen, ex-Mihistter of Woi'k's Iras; been* appointed to represent the tToreftimenfc ; afc the ' Irrigatioa Conf erence to b,v shortly held m the /United 1 Staes. In the Assembly Mr Moxham. got at cvcvss-purposes with the Speaker, who ordered his removal. Mr Moxham, on leaving, the House, voluntarily interjected* that - the Speaker -was blacker ihirv he ;, looked. The Speaker ordered him to be brought back, Vmd eventually Mr iloxliam apologised. The Methodist Church. Bill, rendered iKoessary by th© separation, ,of New & alahd froin'tlve Australian ponfereijce, was read a second time and taken through ! i»n)mitte&' .. :, • X select; conrtnittee was appointed' to ■ inquire into tlie causes of the enormous inorease of house rente. > ' ; ; SYI>JfEY, dctober 18; The Cotigre^ationai ; 'Union discussed ftho qnestion of the decline of . personal responsibility m home,, business, and political life. Most speakers; held that ihi refusal of individuals to >' -accept re.sj)onsibility \yas a sign of weakaiess. The Rev. Mr Williams, however, declared' that the woi-lrl was improving vastly. ■ ■• ' • ■ /'< ; :' v • A launch with ' five. ' Italian fishei-inen hs.s been ; missing , from . "since Saturday; GVave anxiety is felt. v Mr Beeby, at Westmoreland, declaretl t'he Government was gbin^ to make it harder for men to hold land without iifeo. Large landholders, would be subjected to all sorts of restriqtjohs and tlio imposition of taxes m .order to compel them to open up land for settle l ■menti s '-'-'- '. " ; - ' '"'.'•'■' ' '"■.■.-

Since the by-eleetibn 1331 names have 'been added* to the roll for the Liverpool Plains electorate. : '"• "' '■ • ' !1 MFLBOURNE, Oct. 17. 'Champion sculler Arnst is visiting Mclb'durrie. Replying to "a cable from Bifrnan the Canadian, he -says'' he is willing,' to race him for the ehampicj\ship at 'rororitoj tinder, certain" coridi'tjons, which, however..', /are not disclosed. Arnst st-'tes that if the 'reply- is favorable he will leave for Toronto iinmedi&tely. ; (Uepeived CVffrtbcr 18, 9.5 a.m.) v MELBOURNE, October 18. Senator Pearce announces -that there will be no cadet camps at Easter. JJo has given instructions that soldiers must! not be detached for duty as personal servants and orderlies at camps or schools of instruction.. : Last year 101 men andVSO Women committed suicklfe m. Victoria., ; , HOBART,- October 18. A meeting of women at Queenstown decided to ask the miners to take a | secret ballot to ! decide whether the question of "reinstatement. -of White will be dropped! i\U6 to '■■ask White to leave the district, and .-■•that ••'the president am! seci'etai'y of tlie union be asked to refli o n -V '-''- ■'■ '■'■' r "- •"• "■'••■- ;- 1 - <i •""'■■