AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 65, 12 March 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Press Association A

Sydney, .March 11. There is evidence of strained relations between tJie Ministry' and the Railway Commissioner.

Melbourne, March 11

Obituary.—Sir William Zeal, cxPresident'of the Legislative Council, and an ex-member of the Senate. (Received 12, 10.50 a.m.) Sydney, March 12. In the Assembly the State Coal Mine Bill -was read for the second time, hv 31 to 22.

The population of the metropolitan area at the end of last year was 651,800, an increase of 20,200. During the year the birth rate was tiie highest recorded. The wireless operator at the Australasia Hotel station states that he often gets in touch with vessels on the other side of Now Zealand. The revenue collected from the Port of Sydney last year was £373,700, an increase of nearly £47,000. Mr. .Nesbitt, the Town Clerk, is a passenger by the Moldavia. Ho spends five weeks in Now Zealand. Arrived: Queen Elizabeth, from Wellington. Maunganui, arrived last night, after a record trip of three days two and a half hours. The weather conditions .were adverse, otherwise the vessel would have done' bolter.

Mr. Holman has taken the intitial steps in the Assembly to introduce a. Bill increasing members’ salaries to £SOO a year.