AUSTRALIAN NEWS
A BIG ESTATE.
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 15. Probate was granted in the will of the late William Brown, brother of the late John Blown. The estate was valued at £452,(540.
CYCLONIC GALE
SYDNEY, November 15
A gale affecting the entire southeast quarter of the Continent and extending over the Tasman Sea was most remarkable for its sustained velocity. A wind of cyclonic, force lias prevailed in Sydney for tlie last fortyeight hours, reaching fifty-two miles an hour.
Work on the Harbour Bridge was stopped.
A STATE LOTTERY. SYDNEY, November 15. The State Government proposes to introduce a State Lottery under Government control. It is expected half a million sterling' will be raised by this means to assist the finance of State hospitals. ILLICIT STILL. SYDNEY, Nov. 14, At the court at Newtown, Sydney, James Gray, aged JO, pleaded guilty to having hud tin illicit still, He was fined £SOO, or twelve months’ imprisonment. ABATTOIRS RE-OPENED. SYDNEY, Nov. 14. Two thousand sheep and five hundred cattle were slaughtered .at the Homehush Abattoirs, which re-opened to-day. A normal Friday killing would be eighteen thousand pheep and one thousand cattle. The official estimate is that there will be no shortage of meat in Sydney till Tuesday. Large supplies of frozen meat are being used. Retail meat prices have risen by threepence and fourpence per pound. WESTRALIAN SHEARERS. ACCEPT WAGE CTJT; PERTH, 1 'Nov. 14. After a mass meeting, of the ' men who had declined to sheaf undei*' the award which reduced the rate from 40s to 32s 6d' per hundred, the'President of the Shearers’ Committee: ~an- ; nounced that the men would accept work at award rates, thus ending the strike, which has lasted for - three months. BISHOP APPOINTED. (Received 8.30 a.ni.) SYDNEY, November 15. Reverend , Doctor Franojs . ,De Witt, Batty, Bishop Co-adjutpr of 'Brisbane, has been appointed Bishop of Newcastle • im-succession to the late, Bishop LOng. • , , / TAXATION EXEMPTION. CANBERRA, November 15.
Mr Lyons announced that tlie Government had decided to exclude from taxation,:, persons ..whoise, total income from property* exclusively, or partly from property and partly front personal exertion, did not exceed £2OO sterling, The previous exemption was £IOO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1930, Page 5
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