AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 4 October 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

" Received 10.35 am. ~ ‘ *4 MELBOURNE, this day.‘ The Elecforal Act Amendment Bill pl"oVi«_'{es, for pl'eferenti«al voting at an election fior the Senate. ‘ . PERTH, this day. The Assembly read a second time aBill pl'o}‘.«ibiTillg the slaughter of heifer calves

SEVERE DROUGHT IN N.S.W.

WORST FOR 40 YEARS.

Received 10.35 am

SYDNEY, this day.

The Herald stemfes that "three-quart ers of the State is in the throes of the Worth drought experienced for 40 years, and suggests that the Government assist by importing large stocks of fodder from New Zcaland. It ‘gives an instance of .11 sratiron in the north, Where recently the owu’ers cut the throats of eight thousand good Wethers to save them from ‘dying of starvation. The paper states the’ losses to date amounts to about 30 per cent: of the total stock.

SYDNEY, Oct_ 3.

. There has been a sudden clfange in the weather, which is cold and showexy. The outlook for ‘to-morrow’s 1-aces is dubious. _ MELBOURNE, Oct. 3. The schoner Valmerie has been abahdoned.

The Victorian Wheat Commission has advanced the export price of wheat to 8/1&3 ' Notice is given of the introduction or a Bill to amend the Electcral Act to alter the fnethod of electing the Senate. c