AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 12 September 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A WOMAN WALKER

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. uiiiieU Truss jiissociaiiuii. (Received 12, 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, September 12. Mrs Park, a New Zealander, lias established a record for women walkers. Accompanied by a packman carrying impedimenta, she travelled afoot from Melbourne to Sydney, the journey occupying five weeks. She slept in tlie open. BUTTER FOR FRANCE. (Received 12, 8.5 a.m.) Sydney, September 12. -The first shipment of Australian huLter to France—ten tons—will he sent To-morrow. WOOL SALES. \ Sydney, September 12. A feature of yesterday’s wool sales was a decline of live per cent for faulties; good sorts were slightly easier. HIGH LABOUR RATES. Adelaide, September 12. . Building schemes in tho city, aggregating £IOO,OOO have been indefinitely postponed owing to high laboftr rates. SEASONABLE RAINS, - x 1 Perth, September 12. . Seasonable rains have ensured a good harvest. FALLEN ON EVIL DAYS. '(Received 12, 9.d0 a.m.) Melbourne, September .12. Diver Hughes, of Westralian mining rescue fame, has fallen on evil days. Illness has prevented his working for the past year, and a public appeal brought poor response. A deputation asked Mr Fisher to provide Hughes witli work to enable him to maintain his wife and six children. Mr Fisher requested that the matter be left in his hands, and declared that if ever there was a hero, it was Hughes.