AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 38, 27 January 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CABLE SURVEY COMPLETED. (Received ,27, 8.50 a.m.)‘ Sydney, January 27. The Iris has completed the survey for the New Zealand cable. PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL. Sydney, January* 27, The Labour Conference adopted the Health Committee’s report in favour of the nationalisation of public health administration under a Minister of the Grown.

ANOTHER ELECTROCUTION,

Sydney, January 26,

Another man, named Wood, was electrocuted at Pyrmont. He was standing on a damp floor, handling a live electric lamp, when he screamed and fell dead. Apparently a short circuit was established through his body. * ■ STANDARD GRAIN WEIGHT. ■ )'■ i Melbourne, January 20, The standard weight for grain in bags has been fixed at 61£lb. INITIAL COURT-MARTIAL. , (Received 27, 9,40 a.m.) ■■■;,- Slyjnoy, The first .cpurtwmartiftr in ; the. AtlSr tralian navy three, d^er^erf, THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.-,' ■

(Received 27. 9.40 ji.ra.) | Melbourne, January ’ 27. • Fifty designs from all parts of'the world have been received (in' tion with the Federal tion., / ", ?;J . * T""*v NE TEMERE DECREE; f■' f . ■‘ ■ v '■;' /Received 27,' 9.40, a.m,). ;; , . Sydney, January 27.,A United Protestant demonstration adopted against the No Temere deereO, askipg tjiAFeaeral Government to prohibit its promulgation and secure its nullification. ' \:n : i-...