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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 6

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(Received 17, 9.40 a.m.) Sydney, July 17. : 'The Government intends at an cartjy date to introduce an amendment of the Marriage Act, making it comipulsory before marriage to produce the Registrar’s certificate, to obtain ■ which it will, bo necessary to make a declaration regarding parental permission. ’J’he oeject is to relieve clergymen of responsibility. The proposal from the School Teachers’ Union to bo affiliated to the Trades Hall did not meet with general support, the opponents holding such not to be necessary. The meeting adjourned. Sydney, July 17. A mysterious tragedy took place in Scott Street,' Newcastle, in broad; daylight yesterday. Charles McGuire, alias Michael Daley, was shot dead. Nobody', is known to have witnessed the affair. Thomas Jones and George Smith, who wore standing near, were arrested and charged with vagrancy. Another man, the owner of the revolver used, states that Jones and Smith visited him for a drink. He afterwards missed bis revolver and subsequently found it on the footpath rear deceased. Smith and deceased were companions. In six ..matches against Queensland and New Zealand this season. Messenger nas scored t°n tries, convori.-’d thirty-two. end kicked seven pmudiv goals end one field goal, a total oi a hundred end u-n mints. An A nshvdian visitor who has returned from Canada declared Iked Asiatics are ousting whites. He predicts a, big exodus. (Received 17, 10.3 a a.m.) Sydney, July 17. Trio Total area taken up in New South Wales in original ami additional holdings in six months is 653, JOl acres, compared with 885,1.357 acres for the corresponding period last year. Or. Sam field Cassidy intends to carry out an exhaustive search for the Von gala in a private yacht, considering it ton early to give ut) all hope. Melbourne. July 17. Under tl' ri new wireless regulations, the Minister mnv, in ease of emergency, prohibit foreign -.vessels utilising the installations in Australian waters.