AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3561, 25 August 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A BUTTER FAMINE. Received 11.45 a # m. HOBART, This day. There has been a butter famine for the past ten days. Merchants are seeking relief from the Commonwealth pool. THE MEDICAL CONGRESS. BRISBANE, This day. Dr Taylor, in his Presidential ad'dress at the Medical Congress, dealing with the navy and military medical services, said that compound fractures of bone had left an immense legacy of patients with septic fluid in their bones, necessitating judicious operative treatment for years to come. The value of pronctive inoculation against the enteric group of diseases was bound to have farreaching and beneficial results in civilian life in Australia. Thanks to inoculation, there were only 266 deaths iu the whole pf the British Army in France, as against ten thousand deaths among the troops in South Africa ' ~

CRICKET. SYDNEY, This Day,'' J. M. Gregory, the New South Wales fast bowler is temporarily abandoning agricifltural pursuits in North Queensland, and will be available against England. NO NEW TAXATION. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Cook's Budget will be brought down next week. It is understood that it invoVes n'o new taxation, but abolishes the amusement-tax. The surplus forecasted is in the region of five or six millions sterling.

VICTORIA \S COAL SHORTAGE. MELBOURNE. This Day. The- manager of the Victorian Varnish Co., Limited,' in his evidence before the Fair Profits Commission, stated that his company was shifting to Sydney owing to constant interruption of coal supplies. He thought other industries would be compelled to do likewise. PAPER AND McINTOSH. SYDNEY This Day. The Lord Mayor has opened a fund for Parer and Mcintosh, who acording to a Calcutta newspaper, established four records between England and Calcutta: namely, fastest time for the whole trip; fasfest across India; first to do tlie journey with one engine, and the first to- fWow the caravan routes over the Arabian desert. MELBOURNE, This, day. Mr Hughes has announced that the Government is dividing £IOOO between Parer and Mcintosh.