AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 2 December 1911, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, November 30. Dick Arnst will participate in the forthcoming six days’ cycling race. Melbourne, November 30. In the House the Banking Bill discussion was continued. Mr Fisher read a memorandum from the State Premiers, objecting to the provisions of the Bill. The debate was adjourned.

Mr Tudor sprung a surprise by presenting a long series of alterations of the tariff, which operate from tomorrow. Many alterations are merely verbal or shift items from one category to another. British preference is granted in a number of instances, mostly at the expense of higher duties on foreign goods, and where duties are lowered it is mostly on articles required for manufacture. In timber, New Zealand white pine, for butter boxes, is made free instead of having a general duty of 6d per 100 superficial feet. Timber generally is not dealt with, but in order not to give Now Zealand an advantage, rates, except for butter-box purposes, are now all made identical. The weather is extremely hot, and the thermometer has registered 107 in the shade in the city. Sydney, November 30. The Australian Mattress Mills, at Forest Lodge, were destroyed by lire.

The damage totals £IO,OOO. The lire was caused by a spark from an electric machine igniting some kapok, and spread with tremendous rapidity, giving a large number of employees barely time to escape from the three-stor-ey building. Melbourne, December 1.

Australia has been notified that fishing near Mew Caledonia is forbidden for all but French licenses.

At bowls, Victoria won the rubber bv 104 to 82.

Sydney, December 1

The Assembly decided by 31 to 20 to include domestics on the schedule of the Arbitration Bill. Melbourne, December 1.

Under the revised tariff, aeroplanes are admitted free. Paiptings, previously free, are now 25 per cent., except those by Australian students or representations of public institutions.