AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 5, 22 August 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MONSOONAL RAINS

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Sydney, August 21. Good monsoonal rains are falling in the eastern States. They are paiticularly heavy on the coast. MORE SATISFIED COLONIALS. Brisbane, August 21. Mr Batchelor, Federal Minister of External Affairs, and Senator Pearce have returned from England, via Russia, Siberia and Japan. JJiey express satisfaction with the "esuits ol the Imperial Conference. A BIG FIRE. (Received 22, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, August 22. A fire at Mullumbimbi destroyed six shops. The damage is estimated at £BOOO. In the absence of firefighting appliances citizens prevented the spread of the fire, The origin is unknown. Tho insurances are divided among the companies. GOVERNOR’S CHAUFFEUR FINED. Melbourne, August 22. Tho Governor’s chauffeur was lined for furious driving with the Governor and Lady Fuller in a car. EMPIRE EXHIBITION. Melbourne, August 22. Mr Watt, Acting-Premier, states that the Empire Exhibition proposal will be before the inter-state conference in October. The present suggestion is that the exhibition should last for from six to twelve months. ) ADVERTISING AUSTRALIA. 1 i Brisbane, August 22. Mr Bachelor Pearce declares that in all his travels he did not. see a country whore the conditions were so favourable as Australia. Compulsory training was acting as an advertisement. Mr Pearce denied that the absence of Australian troops at the Coronation caused comment. Perth, August 22. The Government intends to purchase the Perth electric tramway system.

GOOD RAINS. (Received 22, 10.40 a.m.) Sydney, August 22. There have good rains over tho wheat belt where it was greatly needed. A LUNATIC AT LARGE. Sydney, August 22. A lunatic created a sensation in the city. He divested himself of most of his clothing, rushed into a pawnbroker’s shop and dived but through a plate-glass window and was severely cut. He visited three other establishments and did considerable damage before he was capturd. IN BANKRUPTCY. Melbourne, August 22. Judge Moule, refusing an application for discharge of a bookmaker in the Bankruptcy Court, held that bookmaking was gambling equally with clients’ speculations. It had been argued that it was a business to impress the Court. He stated that it was the only bookmaker in his recollection before the Bankruptcy Court.