AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 19 February 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

£ . (Received 19, 9.0 a.m.) Melbourne, February 19. The State Brick Works employees have been paid off. It is understood that the works have resulted in a heavy loss and will he closed. (Received ,19,. 9.0 a.m.) Sydney, .February 19. The Totalizator Commission has returned. Mr Levin, the chairman, in an interview, stated that there was a strong preponderance of evidence in all the places they visited in favour of the machine. Only two witnesses examined, one in New Zealand and the other in Victoria, advocated the bookmaker. Both were bookmakers, and praised the manner the Now Zealand racecourses were run and mentioned the fact that the jockeys’ room at Dunedin was used as a Sunday school and preaching place. The weight of evidence was against allowing women to bet. Mr Wilson, another member of the Commission, declares that if ho was a member of a New Zealand racing club ho would ardently support the tote, provided he was a public man without conscience, because it brings an immense amount of money to the clubs. The betting in Auckland was out of all proportion to anything else the Commission saw, including the Melbourne Cup day. The Commission was present at the Auckland meeting, the attendance at which was thirty thousand, and the tote investments £lB,000. (Received 19, 9.15 a.m.) Melbourne, February 19. Doubts regarding the fate of the three boys missing from • Port Melbourne have been removed, one body being recovered in 'the water. Burglars secured four .hundred pounds’ worth of jewellery from Dyce Murphy’s residence at Toorak. A dramatic performance in the Hippodrome at Wirths’ Park included a stabbing incident. The, actress in pretending to stab slipped- and the" stiletto struck Walter, Dalgleish in the forehead, inflicting a painful wound.