AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Presb Assn.— By TelegTapb—Oopyrißlit./ SYDNEY, July, 10. This year's drafts from the Senior Cadets to the militia bring thf total strength of the latter up to 50,447, At the sheep sales Mr Rutherford, of New Zealand, paid 425 guineas for a Canowie merino stud ram. Another fetched 20tf guineas, and one Deniliquin merino stud ram 300 guineas.In connection with the smallpox outbreak, the Quarantine Department has decided to issue surveillance forms similar to those used m N.ew Zealand for passengers travelling by inter-State steanYevß. j There were two fresh cases reported to-day. At the Tariff Commission, a witness, opposing the demand for the imposition of a duty on pyrites, which Js now admitted free, gave evidence that the manufacture of artificial "manures had greatly increased m the past five yoarsj instancing the fact that a Melbourne firm was selling phosphates m New Zealand and. successfully competing with the Japanese article. -(Received July it,' 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 11. ' The outlook is more hopeful for a settlement of the afternoon shift strike. Tt is slated that the j masters offered ,the miners 20 per cent, above ordinary rates to resume loading. A city butcher declares that Sydney consumers pay at least 25 per cent, more than they should for meat, owing to the operation of / canning companies, including the American Meat Company, m Brisbane. He claims that' those companies are not only unfairly competing against local carcase butchers, but are jeopardising the city's meat supply, forcing price sto an artificial limit. Mr W. A. Hobnaii, tho State, Premier, lias definitely promised that the^ building of the North -Shore bridge will be commenced next year. A special Aci of Parliament will be passed to raise the necessary funds. Another case of smallpox is reported :it Movee. ■>• •. MELBOURNE-, July 11. The strike at the State shipbuilding yard continues. The I'unionis have submitted modified demands," but the fact t^iat a ■ number of strikers, have been replaced stands m the way of ,% settlement, ' Mr. .Olynn states that an analysis of the oil fjMin Papua has' shown thnt th< 1 'Tcnosits are eflttai m the morp important fentur.es to those of Java, and Sumatra, which are regarded as the best m the w-ovld. Experts believe that at 1000 feet supplies will bo sufficiently large to make the Papuan fields commercially succcessful. In tho billiard match fleece has scored 7101 and Lindmm 7048. A fire occurred at Service's racing stables under suspicious circumstances. The damage amounts to £1000. A number of well known liorses were rescued with difficulty, uninjured.