AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Windsor (N.S.W.) is celebrating its centenary this week. A special meeting of the Federal Parliament will be held early in the new year to validate the Customs tariff. An Alsatian dog savagely attacked a boy in his home at Eppmg, Sydney, and was killed by the lad’s father, who owned the animal. „ . A resident of Mittagong N.S.W.) was electrocuted when rescuing his wife, who had grasped a clothes line charged with electricity. A wine expert states that Australian wines are gaining prominence in Britain at the expense of Spanish and Portuguese wines. A young) man and a girl friend were killed in Melbourne when, swerving to avoid a boy, their motor-cycle struck a The sixty-fourth case of poultry plague has been reported at Melbourne. On a farm at Fawkner 500 birds have died or been destroyed. The Tasmanian Government's proposal to reduce the number in the House of ; Assembly from 30 to 24 was rejected by one vote. A Sydney commercial traveller was killed near Cootamundra, bis motor .car striking a bridge and somersaulting into a creek bed. . . . A young man in the Casino district (N.S.W.) was killed when lightning, struck a metal basin which ho was Fronf July 1 to November 5, exports of eggs from the Commonwealth, according to a statement furnished by the Department of Commerce, totalled; 11,180,790 dozen, an increase ot, 3 000.000 dozen over the corresponding , neriod of 1931, and exceeding shipments : during the whole of last season by nearly 1,500,000 dozen. The Federal Government will consider assisting deserving persons stranded on the Granites goldfield area. The Premier of Western Australia dodared that secession was the only remedy for that State’s “hopeless position. In Victoria lightning killed a rider and his horse, as well as another noise, which be was leading. . . At Adelaide a former official in me sheriff’s department was sentenced ,to three year’s imprisonment lor having &t Worlf r bas been resumed at Won-| t.haggi (Vic.) after a strike of 11 weeks, duration, in which 1400 employees lost, about £71,000 in wages. . \ A woman was killed 1 and nine oth : persons were injured in a head-on collision between two motor cars at the m-; torsection of Dandenong and Castlebar, roads, Oakleigh. . , ! There are now 65 farms under quarantine in Victoria foi P 0 * 1 y j plague, and of the 17,000 birds on them 14,000 have either died or been destroyed as a precaution. . . . , Travellers in the western division .of New South Wales tell remarkable stories of the seriousness of the rabbit post. On a Lake Cargelligo property, where scarcely a "abbit was to be seen a month ago, 8000 were recently yarded in a day. Australia’s export trade with new Zealand in the past ’financial year declined in value from £2,977,060 to £2,632,946. according to a report by tho Department of Commerce. I In tho past 10 years the Victoria have provided over £BO,OUO,UUU for rural development. This statement was made in the Assembly by Mr. Linton to refute the oft-repeated suggestion that the State had dono little to help producers. . During the hearing of a theft charge at Pavkes it was stated that the railways lost 13,000 towels a year. Should tho wheat hold-up in Western Australia occur, there may bo heavy losses through demurrage of chartered vessels. A Mosman commercial traveller dropped dead at the door of a doctor’s consulting room at Murrurundi. In Melbourne a revue artist, Miss Nel Fleming, was awanled £195 for alleged breach of contract by a theatrical firm. It was dated at a conference in. Melbourne that the Canadian market' had absorbed 15,000 tons of Australian dried fruits this season. Before the . reciprocal trade treaty was entered into the quantity sold to Canada was less than 600 tons a year.