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Australian.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, October 4. Madame Melba has donated £100 to bhe Melbourne Hospital.

The members of the Federal Parliament have subscribed £193 to the Kembla disaster fund.

SYDNEY, October 3

Tlit fire in Block 12, Broken Hill mine again compelled! the withdrawal of the workers, and it was decided to wall off the seat of the fire between the 500-foot and 400-foot levels to prevent it spreading.

ADELAIDE, October 4

The Anglican Church Congress discussed the question of recreation. Bishop Julius pleaded for better consideration by the Church of those living in crowded cities, whose only opportunity for recreation wias the Sabbath. Amid applause, he said where men were living in crowded iplaces be would as soon play a game of cricket with them on Sunday afternoons as preach to them in the pulpit.

SYDNEY, October 4

The autumn lambing returns estimate the number of lambs marked for the present year at 1,662,000 from 8,115,000 ewes put to rains, as against 9,115,000 ewes and 6,329,000 lambs for the same period, last year. The percentage of lambs marked is 20£, as against 69£ last year. The estimated number of sheep, including autumn lambs, at the end of August was 55,716,000, a decrease of 8,141,000 on the number returned at the end of December last. The cause of the decrease is almost solely due to the unprecedented drought.