AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12815, 15 July 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

"* (Press Aosn.— By TeUwrftDh. -t-DyriibM SYDNEY, July 14. , A strong southerly gale with heavy rain .continues. \ '. ■' "'

A large Ministerial party visited the Murrumbidgee irrigation .area under tbe Burrenju'ck schemeV Mr Griffith (Minister for Public Works) performed the ceremony of turning on the water.. At present 445 farms, embracing 300,000 acres; are ready for irrigation and later a' much larger area' will' be irrigated. The. Italian ship Caterina, 93 days out from Buenos ' Ayres, avos towed m tor day. She was partially dismasted m a gale on May 8. * (Received July 15, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 15. v At the Liberal conference, a resolution was passed that constant, systema-. tic care' should be given to children by the establishing of depots furnished with a staff for advising young mothers, and for* home inspection of infants; and that in' view of the, excessive mortality of illegitimate children special means ..be provided to care for the mothers and children for soinef fixed period after birth. The .mover contended " thskt Mr Fisher's bonus scheme, was not as guarantee that babies would be' looked 'after. The annual report of; the Comptroller of Prisons shows a continued steady, de-, crease m« prison population. At the end of 1911 it totalled 1249, a decrease of 71 compared" with thevprevious year,; though the population of the State increased by 55,000. The ratio ofv those m prison to the general population is 71 per 100,000 cpmpared to 221. m 1874. The report recommends isolated industrial homes for inebriates similar to those maintained by the Salvation Army m New Zealand. ''-. , Colonel Wallock, Military Commandant of New South Wales, declares that the compulsory t-raining scheme will be one of the biggest successes the world has ever seen. Owing to the rise m Avages the price at sixpenny restaurants has been raised to ninepence. , _ NEWCASTLE, July 15. The wheelers' and shiftmen's executive resigned after an uproarious meeting of the Union -Colliery. Employees' Federation. It was intimated that the position of the wheelers would be recognised. The threatened trouble has now been possibly averted. MELBOURNE, July 15. The Commonwealth Bank commences operations to-day. Five hundred agencies have been opened at post offices throughout Victoria. y , The American Beef Trust is reported to have acquired 130 acres at Queensport, . Brisbane River, for a big meat export depot. HOBART) July 16 . In the Assembly the no-confidence amendment to the Address-in-Reply was defeated, the voting being 14 each. J.ne Speaker gave his casting vote m favor of the Government. _ mTT PERTH, July 18. There has been heavy rain m the wheat areas. There haA'e been Avashaways on the Perth-Albany railway.