AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

INCREASE OF FACTORIES. Melbourne, August 4. Official statistics show that factories in the State increased by 665 since 1904, the number of hands by 54 per cent., the value of tho output 58-i per Cent., and the total wages paid 59 per cent. POTATOES FOR THE PEOPLE. Perth, August 4. With tho object of supplying the ’public with potatoes at reasonable rates, without risking the introduction of blight, the Government lias established depots for the sale of potatoes at 11s per hundredweight. CADETS ANDIMSCIPLINE. Sydney, August 4. In view of insubordination among the cadets, the military authorities have obtained legal advice as to their powers in disciplinary matters. Tho Federal Crown solicitor advises that senior cadets are subject to military law, and may he brought to summary jurisdiction. BLACKS ATTACK POLICE. Perth, August 4. The Police Commissioner has received a vaguely worded telegram indicating that a police party was attacked by blacks at Chaney river. Five trackers were lost and three horses speared. ‘ WOOL TOPS. Sydney, August- s‘. A Sydney firm is proposing to begin making wool tpps, and has applied for the Commonwealth bounty. \ eiy little use so far has been made of tho bounty. LABOUR AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (Received 5, 8.45 a.in.) Sydney, August 5.

The Labour Leagues of the'city have combined with the object of conducting a labour municipal campaign. CO-OPERATIVE ASSURANCE CO. (Received 5, 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, August o. The final allottment of shares in the Co-operative Assurance Company has been made. The delay in the allottment was caused by the absence ot New Zealand returns. I ■■■■•■■ , PRICE OF GROCERIES. Sydney, August 5. Evidence given before the Wages Board showed, that prices of groceries had risen from 7J to 10 per cent, during the last two years. LABOUR COMMISSION. (Received 5, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, August 5. . At the Labour Commission a largo amount of evidence was given by employees of various trades, it being alleged that there was a shortage of labour. A STEAMER SERVICE. Sydney, August 5.

The steamer llpolu shortly commences monthly service between Auckland, Sydney, Noumea, and the New Hebrides. FIVE SHOPS BURNED. ■ Sydney, August 5. A fire) at Bungalow destroyed five shops, the damage being estimatpd at £6OOO. ATHLETICS. A match has boon arranged for August 22nd between Holway and Trombath for the quarter-mile world’s championship. A DEATH SENTENCE QUASHED. Sydney, August 5. The High Court, in reversing a devision of the Supreme Court, decided that a wife could not be compelled to give evidence against her husband. The case was one wherein the husband was sentenced to death on a charge of wounding his wife with intent to murder. The wife did not desire to give evidence, but the Supremo Court held that she was bound to. The High Court’s decision has quashed the death sentence. CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION. Sydney, August 5. According to a statement made at the Methodist Social Union gathering, five hundred and thirty-seven million cigarettes were consumed in New South Wales in 1909. NEW HEBRIES. Sydney, August 5. M. Martin, the French Resident Commissioner at the. New Hebrides, has arrived cn route to France. He states that the affairs on the group are going on smoothly, there being no friction. He denies absolutely

Bishop Wilson’s charges in regard to the sale of liquor to natives, and that justice was almost unobtainable where outrages were perpetrated on natives.

BILLIARDS

Melbourne, August 5

In a match Recce v. Lindrum, 8000 up, the former has scored 6670 and tho latter 3370. Lindrum is in inti iif e rent health.