AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 69, 16 March 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

,By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright., t United Press Association A (Received 15, 1.5 p.m.) Sydney, Marcli 15. The Manuka will take up the run niug in the San Francisco service 01 the 22nd, after a thorough overuxul. Tiie estate of the late Mr. Geo. Lee Legislative Councillor, has beenswen, for probate at £152,800. Mr. Griffith promised a deputa'ioi to place before the State and Commonwealth Cabinets a proposal to lint up the New South Wales and Queens land railways, with the continuation through Queensland to Port Darwin. In the Assembly the Attorney-Gen-eral, in moving that the Members Salary Increase Bill be read a seconc. time, said a thousand a year was not too much. Mr. Wade, while opposing on the ground that it would add taxa tiou, admitted that the present salary was insufficient to attract the besi men. The Methodist Conference repor. presented shows little progress in the movement for union of churches dur big the year, duo, to the fact tha. statements of doctrine and policy ar. still being considered by the Presbyterian and Congregational churches. The Labour Council considered the Melbourne Trades Hall Council’s resolution condemning the increasing armaments of the nations, proving a persistent agitation for disarmament and asking the Trades Councils of Australia and New Zealand to appoint representatives <to . a .conference in Melbourne in April. The mattei was reported to the executive of the Commonwealth Trades Union Congress. (Received 15, 1.5 p.m.) Melbourne, March 15. An influential congress, the Chief Justice presiding, initiated a crusade against the immoral fact that tJu Friends of Peace Committee in Lon don were attempting to stop people emigrating to Australia and ISew Zea land by putting forward the compul scry, defence systems as a reason why they should not adopt the Commonwealth or the Dominion as thei: homes. This was brought under tin notice of the Federal Ministers. Mr Fisher replied that he did not wan" to bother about people who were jok ing. (Received 15, 1.5 p.m.) Brisbane, March 15. The body of a man named Kingston was found near Aramac with a bulle. wound in the head. It is supposed t< be a Case of murder. Kingston’s companion, a coloured man, lias disappeared.