AUSTRALIANS NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 86, 10 April 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIANS NEWS.

,'By Electric "'olograph.-Copyright.) (United Press Association. i

{Sydney, April 9

At the metropolitan show sales two draught, horses sold on account o! Hoult and Son's, of Feilding, realise! 70 and SOgns. Two, on account oi Mitchell Bros., realised respectively 75 anl Sogns., while one oil account of Cox (Invercargill) was sold foi 90gns. Fremantle, April 9. An Australian officer returning to India by the Malwa has been found to bo suffering from small-pox. The necessary precautions have been taken, (Received 10, 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, (April 10. There was heavy rain last night, and the weather for the races is not promising. Mr Dacey is seriously ill in a private hospital. (Received 10, 9.15 a.m.) Melbourne, April 10. Smerdon, the well-known British Scoutmaster, has arrived to study the compulsory training system. A return shows that out of every thousand persons in the Commonwealth, 19.9 are drawing old age or invalid pensions at a total cost of £2,200,000 yearly. (Received 10, 9.15 a.m.. Adelaide, April 10. The Socialist conference recommended all working class boys to refuse to' attend parades, and decline to drill if committed to military custody. (Received 10, 9.40 a.m.) ' Sydney, April 10; Mis raining steadily. At the Show, sales, sixteen additional draught stallions were sold on behalf of New Zealand owners, at prices varying from twenty-five to a hundred and sixty guineas, the latter being paid for-Mi Andrew Chrystal's Sir Colin's Pride. The wood-chopping contest at the Show was won by Meredith, New South Wales. Blue Baron again secured the high jump honours, clearing six feet nine. ' The Federal Government submit? tiie referenda proposals rejected last year on the same day as the election next year.