AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 16 May 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Tclegrapn.— Copyright.) (United 15 ress Association.) Sydney, May 15. The regulations for the universal training scheme, under which the lirst batch of ten thousand senior cadets are to be drafted into the military forces in July, have been published. They also cover the reorganisation of the existing infantry and light horse brigades. The national regiments of English, Scottish and Irish in the various States disappear, iTie members being embodied into the forces newly created. Provision is made for the immediate creation of four new batteries of held artilh ■ry. Melbourne, May id.

Two disl les of specimens from the Long Tunnel Mine at Gundagai dollied 82 ounces of gold.

The report of the three adjudicators on the Federal Capital designs is not unanimous. The designs favoured by the majority are American, German, and French, in that order. Brisbane, May 15. A recount of the Port Curtis electorate resulted in a tie between the Ministerial and Labour candidates. liecounts are asked for in Merthyr and Maryborough, where the .Ministerialists lead by four and live votes respectively. Perth, May 15. The Legislative Council elections leave the parties practically unaltered. Labour won one seat and lost one. (Received 16, 11.5 a.m.) Sydney, May 16.

Mr Booby accused Mr Wade of political dishonesty in connection with the recent speech in which Mr Wade attacked the Government’s Land Act. A ballot of Broken Hill miners of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association as to whether they were in favour of retaining the Defence Act resulted : Yes 1124, no 956. A proposal to pay the costs of members refusing to comply with the Act was overwhelmingly defeated.

Brisbane, May 16. A Royal Commission! on the fruit industry has commenced. Mr Foster, the chairman, stated that he thought the time had come for the Federal Government to take hold of all production with a view to giving better facilities for marketing at home and abroad. Witnesses declared that the opposition of Chinese gardeners and the importation from Fiji made growing bananas unprofitable.