AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

PERTH, Jan. I:,V All the cattle on R-ottnest Island (where there was an outbreak of rinderpest) have been destroyed. . MELBOURNE, Jan. .1. The State revenue for the half-year is £8,668,000, an increase of £351,562. SYDNEY, Jan. 1. New Year's Eve is regarded as the, quietest on record. The city streets were deserted, mainly due tyo Monday: • being a public, holiday and also the hot day [driving people to the beaches and holiday resorts. Apart from an isolated scuffle between the police and several larrikins, who were starting a bonfire in. a shun 1 district, the last evening of the year passed away without incident*Sir Samuel Hordem is disposing of his string of horses in view of his early departure on a world tour. The horses will be sold. , : r '

(Received January 2, 10.5 a.m.) , ~/ A. hitch is holding up the construction of the Sydney-Brisbane line via the North Coast. The New South Wales Government insists that the bridging of the Clarence river should be incorporated in the agreement, but the Commonwealth will not agree.

BRISBANE, Jan. 1. Foster Bone, a New Zealand solicitor, was charged at the Police Court with, stealing £SO from Robert Posterj at Kawakawa. The arresting policeman stated that Bone first denied his identity and then confessed te the charge, and added that the amounts involved, totalled £6OO. "I am sorry for it," accused said. "Foster is onel of my best friends." Accused was remanded. Bail was allowed conditional on Bone reporting daily.

BRISBANE, Jan. 2. The three prohibited Japanese] who escaped from the lugger Atholi, wire recaptured after a prolonged search. The arrested men welcomed capture, as they were starving through people declining to harbor them in view of alien restriction penalties. PERTH, Jan. 2. The rinderpest Board of control is checking all goods by trans-continental railway, to prevent the export to any Eastern States of prohibited articles.