AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 12 December 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN.

(tmiied Press Association. —Copyright.) MELBOURNE,- Itec. 11. The interim report of the RaiiLway Gauge Conference on the choice between 4ft BJin and £ft 3in decided that the relative advantage, disregarding the cosSt bf'oonversion, was equiafl.. The conforenco adjourned to seouine inform/ation as to the cost of converitrinjg each. The House rejected by 36 to 32 *ho re\iised ddstribution of seats ifoa* New South Wales, and passed a Bill embodying a constitutional amendment empowering the Federal Parliament to nat.oi.ialise monopolies. • ' ' SYDNEY, Dec. 11. An old age pensioner who died1 at Wo'Jon bi possessed £1000 in cash, of wiilch £'245 was concealed an an old shut. rt'he rest was bur.ied under the floor. Tfce deceased ibequeathed' £100 tr» the ioqal parish priest, and the remaitu'lei' goes to the Home Rul© funds. ■Tlie Oiutb'-f-ki!/oi! bubon,if. plague in Nay/ Caledonia .Is causing aipprehension, on r.peount ot the possibility of its introduction into Australia, and is thei source of special danger to (NeW South 'Wales; and the authoriti€s are takinig precautions. Isew Caled'onda has been declared plague infected. '

HOBART, Dec. 11

The North Lyell fir© haa been extinguished, and an effort (is b-eing made to bale the water out of the mine.

The eaghth body has been found at the seven hundred feet level, hoib has not been identinod.