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(Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] STRONG I*l- 1C A l'(>[[ MOTHERS. SYDNEY. Get. 21. In the Assembly .Miss Stanley, arguing, in favour ol the better provision against maternal mortality, declared that by its criminal -neglect the Commonwealth lost tilt) mothers annually in child I drill. .Mot herdoni mortalitv was worse than that due to cancer, and second only to tuberculosis. .Miss Stanley said the Sydnev Cuiversilies had placed veterinary .science on a much higher level than obstetrics. She claimed that women were entitled to claim a horse’s rights for mothers and urged the absolute need tor the provision of more practical experience for medical students and nurses.
DEFAMATION LAW. SVDNEV, pet. 21. The Country Press Conference decided to seek an amendment of the Defamation Act to provide that the plaintiff should give security for costs equal to an amount not exceeding one fourth of the amount of damages claimed, and to protect newspapers against action for defamation when the subject of action proved to he due to an error or omission in a press telegram.
SWEEP SWINDLE!. (Received this dav at 11.2.) a.tnA SVDNEV. Oct. ‘2l. Richard Abbott alias Rex Freeman
fin agent, pleaded guilty to lining the of a room used for the purpose of receiving money relating to the New Zealand sweepstake, cabled on the I'lth. The police gave evidence that fifteen thousand hooks of tickets were printed, each hook containing eleven '■ os tickets, which would return to the promoters about £.‘!7.fi(lo sterling. The prizes totalled about ten thousand sterling, hut no arrangements had been made for drawing the sweep. Defendant gave evidence that the promoters had kept a record of every one who sent money for tickets and now that the matter had been nipped in the hud, steps would he taken (o refund the money. The hulk of the money had been sent hack to New Zealand. Abbott whs lined £ 1 On. Phillip Russieh. the printer ol th" tickets was fined £‘2o for printing lichens without, attaching thereto his name and place of abode.
BLASTING FATALITY. NYDX7EY. Get. 21. John Pnvno. .Vi, and George Burke. 47, were blasting at Bexhill railway t|tinry when a charge exploded prematurely, killing both
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