AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1918, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

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VITAL STATISTICS. (Received This Dav at 9.2-5 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 4

The births in New South Wales in September were IGO below the average of the previous five Septembers. The deaths, chiefly due to the influenza epidemic, wore- 25 per cent above the previous five years’ average.

A USTR'ALIA’S IMPORTS. SYDNEY, Oct. 4. Australia's imports for 1917-13 totalled £73,851,000.

WAR LOAN SUB. (Received This Day at 5.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 4. The Mutual Life Assurance Company is contributing another million to the is contributing another million to the war loan. WOMEN’S ELIGIBILITY. SYDNEY, Oct. 4. The Assembly read a first time a bill making women eligible to sit in Parliament. DEFEATED. ("Received This Dav at If). 15. -t.’n i HOBART, Oct. 4. In the Assembly a measure closing all licensed premises and temperance bars at six o’clock, was defeated by 16 to 0. BIPLANE INJURED. (Rceeiied This itiv sit noon.) SYDNEY, October 4. . Sportsmen arc keenly disappointed that the long expected meeting between Desert Gold and Biplane is again postponed. After a gallop at Rand wick yesterday Biplane displayed symptoms of lameness. The Veterinary traced the the trouble to the round hone of the oft' fore leg and advised Mr Greenwood to forfeit all Randwiek and Victorian engagements and turn the horse out for a lengthy spell. The vet thinks the trouble has been developing for /some time, and probably accounts for the poor display at Rosehill and the erratic track gallops. Mr Greenwood has decided if Gloaming wins, an amount equivalent to what Biplane would have earned if successful in the Spring Stakes, he will present it to the patriotic funds .

LONDON TO MELBOURNE. Oct. 2. A meeting of prominent business and financial men subscribed sufficient funds to definitely commercialise an aerial service between Australia and London, bringing the latter within 150 hours of Melbourne.