AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 6 May 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

United Press Association—Per Ek-otrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.21 a.m., May 4tb. LAND SETTLEMENT. PERTH, May A. The Government are piueliasiug 9000 acres in York, and intend in divide the land into closer settlement blocks. A JUDICIAL DEADLOCK. BRRSBANK, May 4. Justice Paul, on tho ground that ho himself was a. ratepayer, refused to hoar Bradford's application for an injunction against the Municipal Council. All tho other available judges are ratepayers, consequently the case was postpone! hided uilely.

REVENUE RETURNS. ADELAIDE, May 4. The State revenue for nine months increased by £91,000, and the expenditure increased by £BI,OOO compared with the same period last year. CENSUS RETURNS. MELBOURNE, May 4. The census discloses <i4B7 more males, and 51,982 more females than at last census. The discrepancy is partially due to the absence of the South African and China contingents, and .'departures for the Western Australian goldfields. Received 1.2 a.m., May 6ihHOSPITAL SATURDAY. SYDNEY, May 5. Hospital Saturday was a splendid success. Despite frequent heavy showers of rain, the ladies stuck manfully to their -work. The total of the collections for the day in the citv and suburbs was £3876, an increase of £550 compared with last year The amount will be swelled considerable- bv later returns. THE CENSUS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. The census shows the population of New South Wales to be 1,562,232, an increase of 229,995.