AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 20, 21 May 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

j (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) | (United Press Association.) ■ Melbourne, May 19. i Ml’ Miller’s salary will he £IOOO, { Mr Watt will be installed as Premier j and Treasurer, Mr Murray becomes Chief Secretary and Minister for LabI our, and Mr Mcßride takes the porti folio of Railways. Otherwise the poI sitions will be the same as in the i Murray Cabinet. Sydney, May 20. Mr Palmer, Town Clerk of Bonrke, while sleep-walking fell from a balcony and was killed. The Parliamentary party which, vis--1 itod the .Northern Territory arc pleas|ed m itli the country, though they say ! it is ridiculous to say it is another i land equal to the Darling Downs. | Eastern advices state that the Timor | rebellion is stiil in progress hut the j Portuguese authorities have a groat I body of rebels penned in a valley with !no chance of escape. Many of the I leaders have been beheaded. Ihe 1 causes of the rebellion are the irnposij tion of taxes and the restriction of the I powers of the cThiefs. Mr Carmichael announced that Goveminent is to establish trades schools i to train skilled workmen.

Mr Wragge predicts a continuance of severe droughts inland. General Baden-Powell inspected over a thousand IJ.QV Scouts.

At the Alexandria hy-elcetion to fill the vacancy caused by Mr Daccy’s death, Mr Hickey, the Labour member, was returned by a large majority. Brisbane, May ‘2O. Elliott, the University footballer, sustained fatal concussion while playing a match.

The Presbyterian Assembly approved of efforts to bring tin' churches into closer union.