AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3433, 12 March 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

POLITICAL NEWS. Received 9.30 am.‘ MIjJLBOURNE, this (lay. The House of Representatives, by 3.4 to 30, (.lC‘f9{lt('.‘(l the Country P{ll‘ly’S amendment. to reduce supply by half. DARWIN 1.-\’QL7IRY. MELBOURNE. this day. Before the Territory C.'onlnlis.<ion, Dr Holmes described the Chinese qu:u'ter at Darwin as worse than the black quarters in C'.lpeto\\'n. Housing conditions were so deplorable that thirty per cent of the Chinese death rate was due to tuberculosis, and the whole eonditions were snelt as to-bring diseases of the East within reach of Darwin. The town became overrun with the yellow fever mosquito, and disaster was a ‘weekly possibility. Eventually, in default of the local authority taking action, the Administrator demolished the howls and covered the drinking wells; he also repa.t.riated 3. number of Chinese, and the mosquito disappeared.

FIRE AT PERTH. ' PERTH, this) (lay. A fire destroyed the Marrinup timber mill. The damage is estimated at between £12,000 and £20,000. QUEENSLAND I.EGIS.LA'I‘ION. BR.ISB.‘.NE_. this day. A mectin<__r of the I'ept'e.~‘enmtivos of commercial, financial, pmtoral and nl€:nllfa(’tul'in_g iufc-;~e.<ts in fhe State dorziclcd to .'~‘on<l a. <l«:l(>gfl’{ion to London fo plarro before the {<er:retary of State for the Colorlius flu: views of the meeting rog.‘.ll‘(lillg the 2-epurliatory nature of the recent lc»gi.=".-atinn in Qrmenslaml. BIG FIRE AT PORT PIRIE. .-\Dl<}L.~\lDE, fills day. A fire at. Port Pirie Ll(‘:~,'*.r()_yml Dal» gefy a.nr_l C’olllparly’_«,~ [)l‘(%XlllS(.‘H, VV. R. Lane and (7mnpany'.< llu;__'/P a?<H‘flgC shetl, and l’imloft‘.< furnitrrro emporium. A.US'I‘RA LIAI\' MARKE'I‘S. Received 9.50 :L.m. . l\'[El‘.BOllßvNE, this «lay. The hides market is ‘very briskMedium and heavim are up :2 halfpenny; other graclos firm at late rates. Barley: Engli:~_'h. 7/2 to 7/6, Cape 6/2 to 6/5. Oafs, Algerian milling 5/9; to 5/10, feed 5/5 to 5/6. Potatoes, £6 to £6 10/. Onions £l2 to £l2 10/.