THE COMMONWEALTH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5

THE COMMONWEALTH.

LOCAL OPTION. A STRENUOUS CONTEST. SYDNEY, Oct. 11. Reports from some of the country districts state that the publicans are getting shaky over the result of the 110 license vote. Oil the whole, however, the liquor party are very liopefid of putting up a stiff figjit aJI along the line.

Tho no license party is making use, in the shape of large display advertisements, of Dr Eindlay's cable message regarding the Police Inspectors' reporth and tho cable message signed by eight members of the Dominion Parliament, representing the no license disticts, who declared that no licenso had resulted in a marked decrease in the consumption of liquor in their districts and had been generally beneficial to the community they represent.

A WINTRY SPRING. The weather is bitterly cold in the ©.astern States. Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia report lieavy falls of snow in the highlands. CLERICAL MILLINERY.

i A meeting of tho Church Defence League adopted a resolution repudiating the authority of the Privy Council on the question of vestments, and deprecating autocratic rule by one Bishop on doubtful points .of doctrine and ceremonial. EVERYBODY BUSY. The Labour Bureau report states that the past month easily holds the record for general industrial activity in the State. £3OOO RAILWAY SPARK. Received 9.25-p.m., Oct,-lltli. SYDNEY, Ocb. IT. .In the Circuit' Court 7 a- farrner'Swas granted £3OOO compensation for damage caused' % a spark from a railway locomotive'setting iire to his property. THET RICHMOND DISASTER. MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. McDonald, the South Yarra signalman, was discharged in connection with the Richmond disaster. The Magistrate said the regulation under which ,he jEftf sh^rge^-^T^^mbiguous.