AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

More than 600 horses and 408 trade vehicles took part in the Horse Association’s annual procession in Sydney. The South Australian Premier described the action of Federal members in increasing their salaries us “tragic and deplorable.’’ The Federal Cabinet lias decided that Parliament shall not sit on Tuesday, November 7, which is Melbourne Gup day. A man was attacked at his home at Cainpsie by an Alsatian dog, which was shot dead by a constable. Real estate sales recorded in New Spilth Wales in September amounted to £1,013,508, making the total for nine .months C 10,693,411. . Less than a day after the departure ‘from Plymouth for Australia one of the “new” destroyers broke down, and had to put in at Gibraltar for repairs.

Nominations of candidates for the new Legislative Council of New South Wales closed with 126 for tho 60 positions. Twenty-three of the old members Rave decided to get out of the hurly-burly. They are chiefly very old members. Sneaking at a Trafalgar Dnv luncheon at Melbourne Commander Nicholl said that- if Australia’s access to the oversea markets were cut off in time of war it would be possible to compel the Commonwealth to sue for peace without landing a single enemy soldier on her shores. Savings bank deposits in Australia during August increased by £320,000 to more than" £202.600,000, the highest for three years. All the States, except Western Australia, have shown substantial savings bank increases during each of the last two years.

When a house in Wyralla avenue, j Fpping. was struck bv lightning the ; flames spread so rapidly, fanned by a < fierce wind, that a woman in the house was burped while she was attempting In < telephone the* firq brigade. Another woman was severely burned 1 before she could leave the blazing building. Tho j house was destroyed within 15 minutes. The cottage in which Captain Cook spent his boyhood days at Great Avtou, Yorkshire, is now being demolished for ' removal to Melbourne, whore if will he ! re-erected in connection with the Centenary. The cottage will be shipped next month, and the, cost of purchase and | removal is being borne bv Mr. R. GriinI wade. Tho Premier of Victoria stated j that antique furniture of the period in which Captain Cook lived in the cottage i had also been purchased, and would ho sent, out with it. The cottage is to bo •re-oroctcd in the grounds of tho Public) Library, near Latrobo street, Melbourne. Dairy farmers, stock breeders and j graziers are perturbed by the in- * creasing prevalence of stock diseases, in Victoria, notably contagious inammitis (mastitis) among milking herds, and the persistent appearance of another contagious disease even moro serious in its effects. j : A conference of Government experts agreed to proposals for the expenditure of £IOO,OOO on the tobacco industry, over five years. One of tho recommendations is for the establish- . ' ment of a school of tobacco culture in ' Canberra, to help the smaller States.