AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, 21 August 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Received 21, 9 a.m.) Sydney, August 21. Forty-two boys of the Westralian Young Australian League were paspassengers by the Moeraki en route to America, reciprocating a visit from the American boys a couple of years, ago. Sydney, August 21. The fight between Meegan and Griffin for the light-weight championship was postponed owing to rain. Melbourne, August 21. Mr Fisher favours the proposed Empire Exhibition, and suggests that it he held in 1914, when the Science Congress meets in Australia. A Greek engineer named Hiropedes visited a gunsmith to ask to be shown a revolver. He tested, it. on a target, and then placed the weapon in his mouth and blew his brains out. A swagman named Conolly suicided by placing his head on the rails in front of a train. The price of the two-pound loaf trill be raised from threepence to threepence halfpenny on Saturday next. Stevenson predicts that Lindrum will develop into one of the best billiard players the world has seen. Brisbane, August 21.

At tennis Rice, New South Wales, challenger, defeated Parker, New South Wales, holder, in the interstate championship, 4—6, 9—7, 6—4, 6—l. Rice and Parker defeated. St. John and Thurlow in the doubles championship. ; v. Perth, August 21. The Premier delivered a policy speech. The proposals include the construction of a dozen railways to open . up the country. Two hundred farms, ranging from a hundred and sixty to three hundred acres, will be offered to settlers, the Government providing dairy buildings and cattle. A

quarter of a million is devoted to advances up' to £SOO for workers’ homes in towns. A vigorous immigration policy will be continued. The Arbitration Act will be repealed and Wages Boards substituted. The Land Tax and Dividend Duties Act will bo Repealed and be replaced by income and stock taxes.