AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143762, 9 April 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

POLITICAL LABOUR CONFERTKCEBy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, (Received April 9, 8.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 9. Tho Political Labour Conference resolved to assist, financially and otherwise, the AVontbaggi strikers. Other resolutions favoured abolishing tho night shift for bakers and organising the women’s vote. A DISASTROUS FIRE. BRISBANE, April 8. A fire at Ipswich, which commenced in a bedding factory in Princess Street, burnt for twenty-four hours. It destroyed a hotel and a jeweller’s shop. The damage is between .£109,000 and £200.000. A BOY ELECTROCUTED. PERTH, April 8. A lad named Robert Crichton, playing on a dump at .Hannans’ Consols mine, Kalgoorlin, came into contact with a live wire, and was electrocuted. Deatli was instantaneous. SYDNEY TRAMWAYS. SYDNEY, April S. The tram cars in the city carried 1,015,000 passengers at Easter, which constitutes a record. A DISPATCH RACE. SYDNEY, April 8. The dispatch rare between motor cars, motor cycles and bicycles, from Melbourne to Sydney, was won by the motor cyclists in record time, owing to the driver of one of the motor on is •nissb g the road. The various times rut: Motor cyclists, s,lhr. oOmin. ; motor cars, 47hr. 4Gniin.; cyclists, 09hr. 32 min. A QUEENSLAND CYCLONE. BRISBANE, April 9, A cyclone struck Inncsfai! on Sunday afternoon. Twenty and a half inches of rain fell. The telegraph lines are down, and particulars are meagre. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. PERTH, April 8. A fire destroyed Montgomery’s diapery store at Kalgoorlic. The damage is £6OOO, but it is covered by insurance.