Australian News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1912, Page 3

Australian News.

[inr elhoirio telegraph-copyright] [PHR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] This Day, 9.30 a.m.) 1 THE DEMANDS OF LABOUR. SYDNEY, This Day The Gas Employees' Union is dej mandiiig twelvo and a half per cent. , increase in wages. This represents an oxtra burden on tho companies of I £30,000. LUNAR ECLIPSE. SYDNEY, Thfe Day. Thero was 11 partial lunar eclipse last night. It was well observed. EMPLOYERS CONFER. SYDNEY, This Day... • At the Employers' Conference resolutions were carried pledging itself to sand by loyal employers during a time of strike and afterwards, and condemning the surrender ~of Stato rights to the Commonwealth. DEMOCRACISTNG THE%N;tVERSITY.' SYDNEY, Ws .Day-*,, in the Assembly, thfeHos ".&; Ca rmichael ;jof'• Edfa&ation.)' irdjr«lucc4'fa" : University' 'fjiil. The* measure pro/wldes tor tho , reform of" the Senate :by bringing it ■more into touch Tvith outsid*e"iiiter,e.sts, increased States' subsidies," linking up the primary schools to tho 1 .'University, more scholarships, the winners of which will receive a university education free, of all charge. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PROSPERITY, ADELAIDE, This Day. In the Assembly the Treasurer presented the Budget for tile year just ended. This shows a surplus of .£275,100, making the total surpluses for the last ten years £2,000,000. OF this sum £172,200 would he utilised for reducing the public debt. Tho population for the year increased by over 13,000. Agricultural and pastoral interests were flourishing. The estimated revenue for the current .'year was £381,812, with a surplus of £88,000. Very large siims of money would be required in tho next few years for public works, and no doubt it would he necessary to raise loans on the London market. N.Z. SWIMMING ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, This Day. The Amateur Swimming Association has considered New Zealand's application for re-admission to the Union, and bias decided to adhere to the. former abgreement that Now Zealand be invited to apply when the new agreement is drawn up four years hence. WAIHI STRIKE. PERTH, This Day. The Industrial "Workers Union has decided to pay sixpence weekly in support of the Waihi strikers. SHIPPING. MELBOURNE, This Day Arrived: The Joan Craig from Ivaiparci. THE BABY BONUS. The House negatived Mr Groom's amendment to the. Mmternity Bill, proposing to combine the maternity allowance with provision against sickness during unemployment. THE MARKET. Wheat Is 3-Jd to Is 4d : Hour, £9 10s; oat.s (New Zealand) 3s to 3s -Id : maize Is 2d; I man £0 13s; pollard £0 13s; potatoes £13: onions £18.

In the road rnco Timarii to Christchurch J. Sutherland (Opawa) was first. H. Henderson (Wanganui) made the fastest time, shr 20min 31sec -about ten minutes better than the existing record. The management of the King's Theatre, Levin, announces a special star feature picture for Monday night next, entitled "The Sins of the Fathers." The film was produced by tho Eclair Company, and the series is described as "a sensational production." 'The annual prize giving of St. Mary's Sunday School, Levin, was held yesterday, in St. Mary's Schoolroom, from -1 to 7 p.m. Previous to tea, the weather being fine, the children played games outside, and the boys improvised a football for the occasion. They then sat down to a repast of sandwiches, cake and suchlike. , More games followed, while the teachers had some refreshments. The prizes were distributed by the Vicar, who made a few preliminary remarks on the value of Sunday School training in after years, how it often influenced a boy for life, and made both conscientious industrious men, and thoughtful, thrifty women. The Vicar said he had received a- letter from their late superintendent, Mr McCalman, thanking both, scholars and teachers for their gift <of a .gold-mounted fountain pen. Ho then congratulated them on securing Mrs H. C. Gapper for their superintendent.