AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 264, 31 October 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ - _ ~ BU'ENOIXC. TIMBER FAMINE. .Sydney, October 30. Uii. Forestry Commission's report nidii-utt-s mi impending timber famine ' ihcre i s only thirty s.x years' supply of timber in the Nua-. Tlie Comniissum reeoininc.ids an increased rovaltv and tlie, prohibition of the export of irunbnrk and tallow for ten years. -Uhhudism. " '''x Sydney, October 30. Ihe Methodist (Synod lma deeideil to raise a fund of iiSO.ooo to telebrute the centenary of Australasian Methodism. Tiie money will b e principally devoted to the treat 1«« of a tlieologicil institution anil missions. co.uiioMv.mnn rifle factory, Sydney, October .'III. A cablegram from ».ondon states that tenders are being invited for the erection of a Commonwealth ride fuclory at Lithgow, New South Wales. DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS. .Sydney, October 30. • The. National Council of Women detided to appeal to tm> women of Australia to refrain from wearing plunwe With tlie exception of ostrich feathers and feathers from .birds killed to be vnten. THE VICTOR lAa MINISTRY. Melbourne. October itf. .Messrs. Swinburnv, Cameron, and Sachsc have retired fn.ni the .State -Ministry to facilitate, its reconstruction.

COST OF THE I'LKKT'S VISIT. Melbourne, October 30, I The Commonwealth Government* J expenditure on (lie reception of the •> American fleet amounted to £3O 000 BLOCKING ASIATICS. Melbourne, October 30. It lifts been decided to amend the Contract Immigration Act so as to prevent Asiatic crews from working earSees during a strike of wliarf lumpen. WOt.'ISTKATIOX OF OUCHAItDS. Melbou ne. Oetobar 30. The Fruitgrowers' Conference decided to favor the <umpt!l>orv registration of all orchards, even of on,, tree NARIUWIi-YAUIU COU.ISIO.Y. Sydney. October 30. The Murine Hoard found that those in charge of tin- \arnin* and Yam showed n w:int of judgment in irvin« I<> pass o.ich other, hiil that (lie mishap occurred under extrnordinarv circiun( stances. The Hoard did not consider sin.v further action necessary, i ll ■