AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 62, 8 March 1912, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Press Association.! i Sydney, March G. Mr. Trefle, in an interview regarding railway management said that the Government was determined to see its instructions carried out. If the Commissioner sets up any harrier to reform, the Government will remove him. Tebbitt, Rothschild’s assistant, was well and favourably known in Australia. He came out ten years ago as the representative of a London leather firm, controlled by bis father, and until his departure for England ( a year ago bo successfully carried on I the branch office at Melbourne, where Ins wife is at present, Melbourne, March G. The Victorian gold yield last year was 542,017 ounces gross, a decrease of 67,951-ounces as compared with the previous year. Mr. Fisher, referring to the Methodist Conference’s motion against mixed bathing, declared that a dose ofj

cold water was conducive to moral lapses. The Government intend to introduce an amendomnt to the early closing Act next week to provide for closing at nine instead of ten o’clock on Friday nights. Chemists are placed on the schedule with other shops. Tobacconists in the country districts arc to be given an opportunity of | voting in favour of Wednesday instead of Saturday half holiday. Fremantle, March 6. The Chapman-Alexamler mission party arrived by the Otranto. hey open in Christchurch in April. Sydney, March 7. The Agent-General reporting on buttter'export states that it is an extraordinary fact that no Australian butter is sold in the AVost End of London as such. Consequently it lias no opporunity of winning a name and suffers in price accordingly. Dealing ■ with the advantages of Danish over Australian lie states that the former is of uniform quality. In this respect New Zealand also has an advantage over Australian. Only inferior qualities were sold as Australian. If these conditions were altered a proper price would lie obtained. The notice-paper of the Australians natives Association contains a resolution from Kalgcorlie in favour of a republican form of Government. The Commonwealth and. New South Whiles State Government have boon for months discusssing the question of building a cruiser and two destroyers at Cockatoo dock without arriving at a conclusion. It is stated that the stumbling-block now is the question of time I inti t. The Commonwealth is dissatisfied at the time taken in piecing together the destroyer AVarrego, which is not yet completed. It is understood that the state is prepared to give a time guarantee.