AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 September 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■ A FATAL MISTAKE. (Received 7, 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, September 7. Mr Lloyd, Mayor of Merewether, mistakenly swallowed poison and died. Mr Knibbs, Federal Statist, declares that suicides are a third less frequent in Australia than in Europe. They were ,increasing in Europe and decreasing in Australia. MURDERED BY BLACKS. ' Perth, September 7. Two stockmen named James Thomson and George Shoesmith and a native boy were murdered by natives while asleep "on a stock route in the North Murchinson district. They left Hall’s Creek for Wiluna with cattle in January. Their remains were found partially buried in a shallow grave. Their skulls had been fractured and the bodies otherwise maltreated. A punitive party is organising. MR JACKSON PALMER. Perth, September 7. Mr Justice Palmer, of the New Zealand Native Land Court, is a passenger by the Orontes. BIBLE SOCIETY SECRETARY. Sydney, September 7. The Rev. Mr Taylor, secretary to the British and Foreign Bible Society, is a passenger by the Maheno. AMERICAN~N 0 VELS. Melbourne, September 7. Mr Tudor promised an inquiry into a statement that a certain firm had a monopoly of many American novels in Australia and New Zealand. BILLIARDS. Melbourne, September 7. Williams is 4000 and Lindrilrn 3821. SYDNEY BUILDING TRADE. (Received 7, 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, September 7. During the past year 5712 buildings were completed in Sydney and suburbs, a record. They represented an outlay of £3,285,516. THE STEAD-FISHER INCIDENT. Melbourne, September 7. Mi Stead Ixas written to Mr Fisher expressing extreme sorrow at the annoyance caused through the publication of the interview, a proof of which he says was sent to Mr Fisher’s address three days before it went to press. He was surprised to hear it said it was misleading after reading the whole of the interview. There was nothing original in the sentiments expressed. Everyone knows that not only would the question arise, but no one in the Mother Country would deny the right of self-governing dominions to haul down the flag rather than be involved in. what they regard as an unjust war. The right of succession was the foundation stone upon which the British Empire was reared. A COMPLETE WRECK. Sydney, September 7. The Knight of St. George is a complete wreck at Nukualofa.

W ESTRALIAN ELECTIONS. Perth, September 7. The elections will be fought on the question of land nationalisation. NATIONAL DEFENCE LEAGUE. (Received 7, 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, September 7. Tho annual report of the National Defence League a warning against placing too much reliance on the Angi o-.I ap.mese Treaty. Treaties, it s.iy, are as easily broken as they ait made, and have not tho effect of a general arbitration treaty. OAT CROPS. Sydney, September 7. The area under oats in New South Wales, is estimated, at 240,350 acres compared with . 232,249 last year.