AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
GAOL TO BE CLOSED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, April 3. The Government has decided to close Daiiinghuist gaol, and a high school will be erected on the site. SYDNEY STATISTICS. Sydney, April 3. The metropolitan birth-rate for March was 30.74, the highest for. twelve years. The death-rate was 11.85, which is about the average for the last five years. AN ACTOR KILLED. Melbourne, April 3. Oswald Preston, a member of the "Smart Set" theatrical company, was killed at Geelong owing to a motor-car colliding with a verandah. DRAUGHTS CHAMPIONSHIP. Sydney, April 3. Hugh Egan, draughts editor of the Melbourne Weekly Times, won the Australasian draughts championship. E W. Smith was runner up. NATIONALISATION OF JUNES. Sydney. April 3. The northern miners' delegate board, by 37 votes to 3, resolvefl to agitate in favor of the nationalisation of the mines. COLLAPSE OF A CRANE. •Sydney, April A crane collapsed at Taylor's iron foundry. Five men were injured, two seriously.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 268, 4 April 1913, Page 2
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