AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3356, 8 December 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Received iß_4-0 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. . Unless an early settlelllell_[t is effoeicd of the brewery strike, of which there are no present indications beer famine is threatened. There was not too much available on Saturday. Bottled beer was reserved for counter service in order to make the stocks linger out. Rain has continued steady in the dry areas. though much more is wanted. There were heavy falls in some other d-istriets, the country round Glen Inness being flooded. Much davnage was «lone to crops and many sheep were drowned. _ The first steamer of the new l'c.a.lia.n ‘bi-inonthly line, known as “Lloyds Salbandof’ has arrived. ‘The service includes Antwerp, Italian ports :.nd Australia.

FREMANTLE, This Day.

Ml’ Kingscote‘ said he was not painfully optimiestic regarding the result of the Davis Cup, but believed the Englishmen would rendered a. good ac"count. of themselves. They were going to meet sound, formidable men, but hoped at least to hold their own. MELBOURNE, This Day.

The gasmen’s strike is seriously in’(E‘:l‘f€l‘i}’lg with -domestic life. and bad13* handicapping -many connnercikal en»‘terprises, rendering idle many employees. The onginerlrivers_. firemen, of the gag eomp:lnxlios have now joined the strike. _ Received 10.10 «am. MELBOURNE, ths day. Mr .7. K. McDougall, ex-member of the Labour Party in the House of Repl'esonfa’rions, who admitted writing <>fi.'ensi\'es verses about soldiers, was seized by a party of returned men at his home llear Ararat," Who stripped, t€'.rl'r,‘d and featlrered him and released him in the crowcled streets ofArallat. In the Assembly, Ml‘ Oman estimated the ‘present wheat harvest yield at eleven million bushels in excess of requilmnents. BRISBANE, this day. The wamrsiders art Townsville decided to adopt the go-slow policy until granted an increase of la, penny an hour for special cargoes, ' PERTH, this day. The Legislative Council has passed a Bil] increasing the members’ salaries. FREI\I_AN’I.‘LE. this day. The British Davis Cup team has 'arrived. »