AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 224, 16 November 1900, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

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[PBS PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received 15,9.29 a.m. Sydney, November 15. Sir W. J. Lyne's promised clause in- ' corporated in the Old Age Pension scheme means an extra expenditure of £60,000. [ An intercolonial conference, permanent heads of Postal Departments to consider federating the postal system, 1 opens at Sydney to-day. The National Kifle Association has arranged a Commonwealth week meeting. The prize money amounts to £3510. Another hatch of 166 Japanese labourers has arrrived en roule for Noumea. The wheat estimate already cabled is a summary, The local crop reports are not definitely official. (Received 15,9.29 a.m.) Sydney, November 15. In the Assembly the Old Age Pension Bill passed through the Committee without important amendment. Melbouene, November 15. Sir George Turner's no-confidence motion was carried by 51 to 42, The House adjourned until Tuesday, Mr. McLean resigns to-day. Received 15,11.11 p.m. Sydney, November 15. In the opening speech at the Postal Conference, Mr. Crick advocated penny postage and sixpenny telegrams throughout the Federation. The western districts are suffering severely from drought, the grass having all disappeared and edible bushes giving out. Many stations are temporarily deserted, the stock being sent to the cosstal district. 1 Some that carried 200,000 eheep are now without a single head, Melbouknk, November 15. Mr. McLean has resigned. Sir J. Turner is forming a Ministry,