AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3573, 8 September 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VALUABLE FIND OF MINERALS. Received 9,5 a.m. PERTH, This day. A well-known Kalgoorlie prospector returned to Cue from the northwest of Gascoyne with a remarkable report as to the finding of a mineral belt containing silver-lead, ored gold, copper, white marble, rubies, and some unknown minerals two hundred miles from Cue. The silver-lead sample is almost pure, and the prospector says he found three big lodes. He regards the marble as the finest belt in Australia, and the samples exhibited bear out his report. OCTOBER WOOL SALES. \ Received 12 noon. MELBOURNE, This Day. One hundred thousand bales of wool wiT be offered by auction during October. It is understood that if. the October results justify it, the November quantity will be increased. ESCAPED NUN’S BROTHER. Received 12 noon. SYDNEY, This Day. Joseph Partridge, brother of the escaped nun, Sister Ligouri, has arrived from China. MEDICAL CONFERENCE.. Received 12 noon. SYDNEY, This Day. A conference representative of the medical faculties of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Otago Universities resolved that the length of the medical curriculum De increased to six years. The Senate referred, the proposal to the Faculty of Medicine for a report. NO POLITICAL FAVOURS. Received 12 noon. SYDNEY. This Day. A message from Invere’l states that the Prince of Wales returned the present of a new' State badge on the grounds that he was unable to accept presents. RUGBY UNION RULES. Received 12 noon. t SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. James D ’Avoren, vice-president of the New South Wales Rugby Union, ■referring to the contemplated alterations in the Rugby football rules on , the lines of the Auckland Rugby Un- • ion rules, said there could not be any change without the approval of .other countries Interested. JnternSatiional Rugby players must, think internationally; otherwise they would have football a Towfer of Babel.