AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 9436, 1 December 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, Not 30,

Id the Legislature 'Assembly a motion waa carried in fator ot introduc ing a Biit to abolish barmaids and permitting hotels to bare only one bar. Melbourne, Not 30. Last year's operations at the mint resulted in the loss of £4000.

The Metropolitan Board of Works have authorised a modification in the Mansergh sewerage scheme for the city. Tbe cost will be 3| million pounds as against four millions under the original scheme. Ia the Legislative Assembly it was stated that there are sixteen thousand unemployed registered on the books of tbe labor bureau and that twelve thousand houßes are empty in Melbourne, j also that unless something is done to provide bread, riots might be apprehended. Sir Graham Berry replied that Government were fully alive to the position aod liberal provisions would be made in the estimates for carrying on public works with a view of giving lelief. The next Intercolonial Postal Conference wi>l be held in Brisbane in March,

Reports of the wheat crops are most encouraging, and .the 'yield will probably be the largest the colony ever produced. (Received, Dec 1, 1,10 a.m.) Melbourne, Nov 30.

Two arms which bad been cut below the elbow have been found in one of the pubjic parks wrapped in a newspaper. They evidently belong to the same body from which the legs recently found were removed. Tuey present the appearance of having been unscientifically hacked off and aro considerably wounded, giving the im» preesion tbat a weapon of some kind had been forcibly lorn from them. The state of the hands shows the victim belonged to the laboring class, Tue police are still without clue.