AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 89, 11 April 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Per Pre s s Association. | Melbourne, April 9. The report of the Government Committee to enquire into certain alleged cares for drunkenness state that it is ucable to affirm that there is any specific for inebriety which is a certain care, bat it was able to say there were j methods of tr;atmen f , whether b>! known or ut>rtveiled medicines combined with physical and moral conditions, which resulted in the restoration of a large number of inebriates. The Committee th - following recom mendations: That provision be madr for registration under Government supervision of ail institutions for treatment of inebriety; t! a'. a special pbice of confi .euient ard tr. atmetit be pro ridtd for criminal inebriates ffe:.ces may be ctirec' 1/ tractd to icebriey, atd wh r<*> g:ound for •ie'eiit'on is hhitu.-.l drurkenmsj i'3?lf; th it. a Government iiwtituti i u.;der a Buard <f' out. o' be e-tabli*lie.< •n gom 1 vul ty >-uitaMe for isolation, clas-ifi ativn, and rpporlunity r>f employment to which itiH 'ria'es raay bu rent voluritirily or con pulsorily, ir different methods of treatnaen* m .y be a lop'ed.

Adelaide, April 9.

Th» Russian cruiser I'ji'Vit has ai rived fr rn C. p) Town en route to Po- i Artliur.

N< w- li f b 'rn r?c°ived that, nu inp 'be voyage f she Margaret Gilbtaitl fr.ra Bcira to li rbadoe-, fever brok out on tbe South Afr'can c ast. C>p tain Dolbeli and the fi'st mate, Allan, died. The vessel rf ached Cape Towr. but sfvtr'l of the crew were Btiicken, and the rest exhausted by overwork. Bhisbane, April 9. Mr Ph lip has- be'sn sworn in bf Homo Secretary, Mr F xton has re signed that p rt folio, nrd has been sworn in as Minister rf Luklf.

Perth, April 9. A rich p-tch nf g.-M has been di covfred in the Q icen Murparet S' u 1 property, amounting to 1000 ouncts Ooe piece weiehnd n r unces.