AUSTRALIAN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 7 March 1912, Page 4

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Sydney, March G. M.r MeGoiven, Premier, states that iv tho near future tho present system of trams will bo superseded by* underground rails. Melbourne, March G.

Among the proposals for consideration at the Political Labour Council is one containing a provision that all Labour candidates for Parliament and other public bodies must be wage earners.

Melbourne, March 6.

The Victorian gold yield last year was 512,047 ounces gross, a decrease of 67,951 ounces compared with the previous year

Fremantle, March 6.

The Chapman-Alexander mission party t arrived by the Otranto. They open in Cliristehurch in April.

Brisbane, March 6,

During February tho Mt Morgan gold reduction works treated 5254 tons of ore, which produced 3650zs cold. The copper reduction works treated 17,784 tons for 512 tons blister copper, containing 507 tons of copper and 7320zs of gold. Tho yield was affected by the strike of >a section of the men, controlled from Brisbane, causing a temporary shutting down of the works.