AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 30, 30 January 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

HAIRDRESSING CHARGES. (By Electric Telegrap'i.—CopyrigMt.> (United Press Association.) (Received 30, 9,a.m.) Sydney, JVnuary 30. The hairdressers have increased the price of a shave to fourpei cc and of a hair-cut to nineponce from'February sth, with corresponding concessions to employees. DROUGHT GETTING SERIOUS (Received 30, 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, January 30. The drought is not yet broken. Many districts are suffering severely from scarcity of water. The Tbirlesmere consumptive sanatorium has been closed for a similar reason. The outlook for farmers is getting serious. THE GLEBE~MURDER. , ■ i*. i." Sydney, January 29. The trial of Moir for' murdering Trcvascus on October 31st has been opened. The evidence was similar to that at the coronial inquiry? GERMAN DISCOVERIES. (Received 30, 9.0 a.pi-) Sydney, January 30. Dr Fizzi, a German scientist, has arrived from a twelve months’ exploration of the German Solomon Islands. In the island of Bougainville he discovered two tribes who had never seen a white man. They lived in the mountains and wore the remnants of the real aboriginal population. In the German Solomons, the Bismarck Archipelago and German Guinea large tracts awaited scientific exploration. Numerous tribes never come in contact with Europeans.