ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 6

ITEMS IN BRIEF

TORRENTIAL RAIN'S IN QUEENS- , LAND. "■ ' (Rec. February 11, 7.45-p.m.). ; ■ ; s Brisbane, February 11. There have been great rains -in the coastal districts. >MHfo men named' John stone and Scoull were drowned lymle. crossing: a flooded creek. ; . • - A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. . . Perth,' February ,11.' • John Bath,• a farmer _at Kojonup, who; surrendered to the police and confessed to killing his wife, says that he drank'a quantity of rum and quarrejled with his wife; When he came to his senses he found that he had killed her.' '' . EMPLOYMENT AT BROKEN, HILL. / Sydney, February 11. Broken Hill mining figures'shcfa that only 4459 men. were working in December, 1914j as compared with 8788 for the same period of the previous' year, - • [NEW SOUTH WALES WORKS LOAN. Sydney, February 11. Mr. Holman has intimated that, the sura of ten millions is involved ; in tie Norton Griffiths scheme. UNEMPLOYED IN MELBOURNE. . (Rec. Februaiy 11, 11.5 p.m.) . Melbourne, Februaiy 11. It is estimated that five thousand unionists and three thousand non-union-ists are unemployed in the city. BRAN, POLLARD. AND CHAFF ' SHORTAGE. - • (Rec. February 11, 11.5 p.m.) Melbourne, February 11. In view of the anticipated large short, age of "supplies, Mr. F. G. Tudor (Federal Minister of Customs) has remitted by £1 per ton the import duty on bran, pollard, and oaten^sheaf chaff. ■