AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 21 December 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, United Press Association. (Received 20, 9.0 a.in.) Svdney, December 20.

Mr Beoby, speaking at I rana, delivered a significant warning to big land-holders. He said the Government intended opening wheat lands by means of railways. If land-holders did not realise the situation tlic Government bad no option but to apply the screw. The revenue, which was tied up iu largo estates, should snppoit ten millions. Under the resumption system they would take £50,000,000 and provide farms for _ twenty thousand settlers. It was plainly evident that some other system should be adopted. The Town Clerk’s annual report declares that tiie compulsory notification of consumption has had beneficial results. There lias been a noticeable falling-off in the disease in Sydney. Mr Segcsmeirr, formerly general manager of the Bank of New Zealand and now known in England as “the tramway king,” lias arrived, en route to New Zealand. He states that Sydney lias the second largest street tramway service in the world. Arrived: Matatua from London. A Continental Carnival held in the Stadium in aid of the hospital was crowded. It continued throughout the night. Another heat wave was experienced in the city yesterday. The fire brigade attended thirty-seven fires, mostly small ones, but the number constitutes a record.

The Bulli coal mine is idle. Eight hundred men struck as a result of a dispute with the management regarding the weight of skips. The surveying ship Sealark has located a dangerous rock off Cairns, Queensland, in the steamer route. Newcastle, December 20. Sailed: Maroro for Wanganui. Melbourne, December 20.

It is stated in shipping circles that some Companies decline to raise freights and fares by five per cent. It is thought that the action will terminate the friendly arrangement under which the companies work. A representative of the Hnddart Parker C|o. stated that although following the lead of raising the rates the company in future intended to run on their own time-table, irrespective of other companies.