AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 33, 3 February 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Sydney, January 31. Grown, general manager pf the Singer Sewing Machine Company, has arrived at Fremantle, aboard the steamer Morea. Lawless has been sentenced to death for the murder of Una Cover The evidence showed that Lawless was of a brooding disposition, and that the Covers were his only friends. There was no reason for the crime. Pleas that lie was suffering from mental delusions were not upheld. Mr Griffiths, replying to Labour Conference criticism* said the Government took a steamer over and continued paying the engineers the same wages they had received before. There was no request made for an increase. The Engineers’ Union, he said, was to blame for not bringing the matter under the notice of the Government. The Australian Workers’ Union announced that ballots throughout the Commonwealth on the question of contract shearing shows that the voting was 23,910 against and 2000 for. A majority was also cast against the proposal for four runs of work per day, with vtwo runs on Saturday. The commission of Uruguayan engineers and professors have arrived to study the agricultural and pastoral industries with a view to the improvement of methods in Uruguay, v Ilev. Sedgwick, who is returning to Christchurch from a visit to England, was struck with the number of inquiries regarding Australia and New Zealand. Knowledge of the Antipodes had undergone a remarkable change, and was growing rapidly, more so as regards Australia and New Zealand. Probate has been granted of the will of W. lE,H«j].l. ..-.The value.of the New South Wales estate is sworn at £2,311,000.- - Mr Fisher is against asking the Prince of Wales to visit Australia as a military officer. He says that any invitation will bo as Prince. The Labour Conference adopted a resolution in favour of the Federal banking- scheme and urging the State Government to accept the offer to participate therein. ' ‘ Adelaide, February 1. Two men, Pascoe and McArthur, were suffocated by foul air while working in the hold of the stranded barque Margit. .. There is great heat, 110.8 deg. being registered in the city. There are many bush fires in the surrounding hills. Buslr fires swept miles of country in the hills. Great damage was done to orchards. ■Fremantle, January 31. Tile barque reports sighting the derelict barque Lakemba in the vicinity of Tristan D’Acunha Island, saying that she was a danger to navigation. The Lakemba was abandoned at sea some time ago. Melbourne, February 1. The first step likely to be taken towards the naval co-operation of Australia and New Zealand will be an invitation of the Dominion to send cadets to the Commonwealth Naval College. ■ The weather is extremely hot, the thermometer in the city registering 109 deg. Tho Federal Customs revenue for the 'Seven months increased by £936,138 compared with the same period of the previous year; Suva, February 1. Taviuni reports that wireless communication had been restored. The island was badly swept by the hurricane. Houses and crops were badly damaged. The glass fell to 27.5.