AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 105, 1 May 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

j PFB-PRESS ASSOCIATION j Sydney, a pril 29. I The Government does not intend to herep-e"'nted at the Gl->iM Exhibi;ion at Capetown, op ning at the end of tho year, or at tha Johannesburg International Peac3 Exhibition next jye.r. j Eef rring to the recent departure of (three Sydney doctors to help to cope '■ with the measles ou*b eak in Fiji, the [President of the Board of Health paid 'ho alleged vio'ence of roe isles in Fiji w«s a delu i.-n It, do s no 1 ; assume a severer fo : m thorn than anywhere else. Received 30, 9M p.m. Sydney, April 30. j The Cent ml Old Ag-i V.-r sion Biard, in i's firs'; < fici-\] report, points out a number of defects in the Ac* which, probably, the Government will amend his !■ The mods of payment hrougn the hank involves a greater outlay than under the New Zealand system, whiib, if adopted, wou'd save .£BOOO a year. Although in its .working the Act is the strae as in New Zea•and, th" q-ial'ficitions for a pension povifling for twelve months prior destitution was, on th« advice of the At-'orney-General, dispsnped with in favour of a pe'son destitute at the time of the craning of the pension. The Bord tint as the of small s a'-sorbs the bulk of the pens'' ti of 15s a 'reek gran f ed to married c uples, it advises the e- ection of cottars <o pensioners at State expense, and istirnates 'hat comf"r'ablequar'eis er-uld be prov : d d for 3s 6d a week, 'hat is in'erest, on .£3O nt 3 per cen f . Exi'lu ive of lnivjn shipments from Ohuerc Rive", 2,690,000 eupeifk-hl -nd over 52,000 lin -<1 feet of N.S.W. timb rs were slipped to New Zealand 'as 1 " ie;r.