AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 316, 4 July 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, July 3. A movement is on foot for the erection of a memorial to commemorate the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death in 1916. MT. MORGAN MINE. Melbourne, July 3. The revenue of the Mt. Morgan Gold Company for the year was £989,713 and the expenditure £731,715. There was available for disposal £314,288, of which £221,807 was divided to .shareholders. THE PANAMA EXHIBITION. Melbourne, July 3. The Commonwealth has received an invitation from the President of the United States to send commissioners and display Australia's resources at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. COMMONWEALTH PENSIONERS. Melbourne, July 3. The number of old age and invalid pensioners in the Commonwealth at the end of the financial year was 89,006. NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNOR. Sydney, July 3. In his speech at the Lord Mayor's (dinner. Lord Denman, referring to the I State Government's intention to' appropriate the Governor's residence, said the [shadow of eviction was hanging over his head and likened himself to the first occupants of the Garden of Eden or to Naboth dispossessed of his vineyard. Personally he did not care where he lived, but lie had to take consideration jof the prestige of the Governor-General, I and took the stand that the' official 'residence should be suffiicent for the Governor-General and capable of maintaining his large establishment. If that was not conceded his ability to reside in Sydney must come to an end.