AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 55, 29 February 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association Sydney, February 28. The Executive Council has commuted the death sentences passed on Moir {tor the murder of Trcyascus) and Lawless (for the murder of Lucy Cover) to imprisonment for life. The stock returns show the number of horses in the State on January 1 to be,559,767, an increase of 17,500. The number of cattle is 2,734,691, a decrease of 25.372. The number of sheep is 42,753,463, a decrease ol 753,881. The Manufacturers’ Conference adopted resolutions against preference to unionists, which was a pernicious System, meaning coercion and interference with the liberty of flic snhjjefctv They also passed resolutions in ravour of the encouragement of private enterprise. Several speakers condemned Government competition. (Received 29, 11.15 a.m.) Sydney, February 29. In the Assembly, Mr. Dacey, in moving the second reading of the Housing Bill, declared that the scheme would cause no great draw on the laf hour market. For every tradesman required one would bo brought from England to replace him. It was pronossd to erect a garden city and to offer' the people a healthy- life. No hotels would he allowed within the area. Me considered it equally necessary lor Vhe Government to construct houses as railways. The scheme would cost half a million, and between eight hundred and nine hundred houses would he erected. One Labour member came into collision with the Chair, and was removed from the Chamber. The smmd reading Was carried. Professor Gilruth, Administrator of

the Northern Territory, in an interview, said he first intended to demonstrate what could profitably be produced in the Territory, ana then secure; the right kind of immigrants. Ho will spare no effort to prove that the White Australian policy is sound and capable of full fruition. Melbourne, February 28. Dr. Peacock has. been acquitted of murdering the girl Davies. (Received 29, 11.15 a.m.) Melbourne, February 29.

The Government has cabled to England with the object of securing four experts in connection with the building of warships. They will include a naval architect. . (Received 29, 11.15 a.m.) Perth, February 29. The police are investigating the murder of an aboriginal named Jimmy by three other natives who were jealous. of Jimmy’s attention to gins. They lured him to the bush, killed him with tomahawks and spears, and dragged his body about the camp.