AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 276, 16 November 1908, Page 2

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OBITUARY. Received 15, 4.30 p.m. Sydney, November 15. Olutiiiiry: Ernest Eavelice, cxnloivr and litterateur; aged (i;t. SUSPENDED AND RE-ELECTED. Sydney, November 14. Mr. Oifliths, who recently resigned his seat in the Legislative Assembly ns lnemlicr for Sturt, has I>eeii rc-cle'etedj unopposed. j l-Mr. (,'rillHhs made a disturbance in the Assembly during the discussion on the sending of extra police to Broken i Hill as a precaution against strike ; riots. He came iato contlict with Die Speaker, and was suspended indefinite- | l.v. He resigned so that his constituency might not be without a representative in the House.] PLAGUE OK GRASSHOPPERS. Sydney, November 11. A plague of grasshoppers in Molong district is causing great destruction. A HOKU MULLET. Sydney, Xovenib;" 11. \\ hde a man was undcrgoiii-.; an operation to remove a supposed growth I [ in the armpit a bullet was oxuacn-d j '' It must, have entered the man's arm in I i the lioer war eight years a™o | j A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.: , Perth, November 14. A man named Richard Scott, while s siill'ernig from melancholia, cut his '! wife's throat, and indicted dangerous wounds on himself. The woman has ,'• died. " TASiMAXIi.VS CIIIKI-' •• IXDUSTRY.'' \ Ilobart. November 14. J'' In the Assembly a motion for taking ' a reteicnilum o ; i tli,, abolition or re- " tent ion of Tattersall's was rejected bv > v a large majority, ' II TASMANTAN POLITICS. <" Hobart, November 14. "' The A-seiiibly lias passed a Combined wi Unimproved Lund Tax and Income Tax ''" Bill. ' | pn

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