AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 87, 1 June 1911, Page 5

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A HANGMAN KtSJ C.Ho. OWING '! () A SLUM I’, IN BUSINESS. Sydney, Miy3l . [ Questions ‘in Hie AssunnDL c bened the fact that the public '■.ii.gnarn, whoso salary war: £!d() per annum, with Ll.o for each execution, has in- 1 signed bis Donation, presumably owing to there being no nail for ms p-m ■i rdonal services. Since, the esent Government took (.(lien seven death 1 sentences have boon before Jia Executive, all of v. nidi were com me. tod. | STRIKE FINES. (Received I, 9.15 a.in.) Sydney, Juno 1. Air Holman stated, in reply to a j question, that 13-1 persons had been iined for taking part, in strikes since IOctober 11th, and only one fine had been paid. Nobody had been imprisoned for non-paymont, and no ! steps \Voro taken to enforce payment. An application for the ro- j mission of the fines was under consul- I oration. A PECULIAR FATALITY. Sydney, June 1. A young man at Bathurst swallowed his false tcct-h while laughing, and was choked. STEAMER AGROUND. Sydney, June !. The steamer Rosed.do is aground on the Bellinger bar. Her position is regarded as hope-loss.