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JIRJSiJAXE, December I
A (ire at Yervnga automatic telephone sub-exchange threw six hundred subscribers lines out of commission.
X.S.W. DRINK MILL. SYDXICY, December -J
New South Wales drink hill lor the year ended .‘Kith .June was Lit!,(JO!),000. according i< the (Government statistician, which is e>.|i!al to to Ids Id per head of population or ninepence more than the previous year. The consumption totalled I’S.d.'Jo.flOO gallons oil tied'. I,7dd,IKK) of wine, U-akOOO of prool spirits. Excise duties were a little over half a million stoning.
X.S.W. ROW I XU. SYDNEY, December i
Interest; in New South Wales Rowing
Association Regatta on ddnd Da ember is (piickoned by anticapai ion ol the New Zealand amateur cln.mpion. .Jackson. of Wanganui, and tin- nii.iier-np. ({right, of Wellington, will p • rtb-ipaU* in the State sculling premiership. Wo grot is expressed that the row /. mlam)
Association is umilile to smid a cnan
pint) eight aeros;
FEDERAL ELECTIONS. SYDNEY, December -1
A new Senate candidate was declared elected to-day .J. ii. Dooley (Lnliourite for lirokon Hill) whose prelerences are likely to return other Lahouril.es, Dunn and Rae.
A. FRACAS
YOLUNTKEIi SEAMEN ATTACKED
(Received this day at 8 a.in.)
SYDNEY. December o
A numher of volunteer seamen off Hie vessel Alildura. drinking at an liotel near the wharves to-night, wore set upon hy a mob ol men alleged to he associated with the Seamen’s l nion. Three volunteers received a brut'l handling from fists, hoots and bottles. Two were rendered insensible, wit! faces cut, eves blackened, and clothes bespattered with blood. The police arrived too lare to arrest the ruffians. A great crowd witnessed the affair which was the first of its kind in Sydney, arising out of the waterfront trouble.
A PROTECTIVE MEASURE. .MELROrRX'K. Dec. .1
The Mmi'xltv has asked the Legislative Assembly to pass an urgent measure naim !-. !:n Axnlosive SukRill. w!e ill make ’i duk cult for criminals to obtain explosives. and provides for the imposition of heavy penalties foi the possession of explosives, except for legitimate industrial purposes.
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