LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 146, 12 August 1911, Page 6

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Sydney, August 10. At the inquest on the vk time ol the Muswellbrook motor lability too jury found that Suess, tiro driver, was unblamable, and censured the Shire Council for not taking precautions to make the road safe. Melbourne, August 10. The objects of the WilliamsonClarke theatrical combine is to reduce the cost of - production ol plays, which, during tire last Four or live years, lias been doubled, mainly owing to the increase of royalties and salaries. Another object is to rano tire artistic tone of trie productions, brought out and regulate the dates raid nature of attractions tour ing Australasia. Among the theatres taken over by tiro combination arc tire Opel’.' House (Wellington) and ure Royal Theatre (Christchurch). Ten to twelve expensive companies will -- kept touring Australia and New Zealand. (Received 11. 9.15 a.m.) Melbourne, August 11. The value of the meat and butter exported from the Commonwealth for’ the last financial year was £8,701,879, an mcreas of £3,262,619 on the, previous period. Tasmania exported over 1,000,000 cases of fruit, valued at £228,601. Bishop Wilson, of Melanesia, made official representations If; Air Hughes of tire unsatisfactory condition arising out bf tire dual control of the New .Hebrides, He requested the Commonwealth to approach the Imperial authorities with a view to the appointment of native protectors. ■ It was arranged that tire Bishop put iris case in writing.

Sidney, August 11. The annual report of tiro Medical Health Officer shows that last year’s deaths’ record in Sydney was 10.9 per 1000, tiie lowest in the world. The infant mortality was per 1000 births. The report states that it is also highly satisfactory that cases of consumption had greatly decreased. Brisbane, August 11. A privately-owned sugar train at Bingcra struck a cow. 'The engine and four trucks were derailed and thrown down an embankment. The weighing superintendent was killed. (Received 11, 10.55 a.m.) Sydney, August 11. The body of the suicide supposed to ho Mary Wilson has been positively identified as Ellen Margaret Bouch, formerly a lodgingbouse-keep-er at Woolloomooloo, Sydney. In duly she visited /Auckland with the intention of . seeing a sister, whoso name is well known, lb is believed she did not call on her sister. .Archdeacon Boyce attributes the increased convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand to a wave. He positively states that it is no case against No-License. Brisbane, August 11. Tiie driver (Conway) was also killed in the Bingera railway accident. , ......... "Melbourne, August 11. ’ The wharf labourers who unloaded the Aramach’s general cargo declined to touch sugar. Clerks completed the work. The drivers refused to cart the sugar. Lindrum is in good form. Scores: Lindrum 8669, Stevenson 5768. Adelaide, August 11. At the football carnival, Tasmania beat New South Wales.