AUSTRALIAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13703, 18 September 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

THE t^XSE

Pr*»« Awociatioo-B'r T^^Vr^p¥-Coprrij;li| BYDKEY. ,ft>pt. 16. Livingstone, treasurer J. , s'Williamson, has sun«ndered himself i» tl»* police. o ( • THE WOODSTOCIv TOWN CLERK-

t>s>u;h African iiie* .eliow .that; the •stock Council, after the arrest of the town cletk (H. F. Smith), passed a resolution of continued confidence iu him, and granted Smit h months' leave on full pay, ia order to ■ defend"the clwrjie. Smith was arrested for ' alleged fraud in; connection with the purchu&e- oftr farm by the municipality. His brother, Septimus Smith, was arre>i£d iu Australia a fortnight ago, on ii cKarge of being an.' accessory. J ■

FIND OF FOSSILS.

MELBOURNE, Sept. 17.

An interesting discovery •of splendid specimens of fossils of ,trilobiteH hnc beea made at Portland. . T&e discovery "baa proved the erii«tfnc^ / of Silurian rocks in Devonian !»trata. CJOVERNOR-CENERAL'S ADVICE. The Earl of Dudley," .speaking nt« VHa Federal Speaker's. dinner, advised legiala- , tors to prevent, by all n(3tk. in... tbeir poVer, the appearance of the cancerous growths, which,' jii older countries, somei itn*B stiffed progress and hindered fwynfem, but at- the same tinte'tbrensembef that a}, though old countries may they albo have experience. \ . ■

LICENSING BTLL. HOB,4JWy Sept. 1?. Thrf Counpil eliminated from thfe Licensing Bill the clause. prohibiting employment of barmaid*: