AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 304, 19 December 1908, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A BELLICOSE POLITICIAN, Adelaide, December 18. ' Afi the result of a heated discussion on the Licensing Bill in the Legislative Council,- Mr. Lucas attempted to strike. Mr. Wilson, a Labor member, in the face. Mr. Wallis, another Labor member, intervened, and received the blow, on the chest. Mr. Lucas endeavored to reach other' members, but Wallis held him. —— _ ' '''' A PRpBABLE BTOEM GENTBE. : Sydney, December IS. ' Professor MaeniiUan Brown has re. turned from an extended, tour of tho East. He says tho future history o! the world is going to be centred in the East. At present Eastern Asia is not a storm centre, but it going to- be soon. '■ , .

N.S.W. ESTIMATES. Sydney, December 18. With the aid of the closure the Go* vernment's estimates for the year's ex. penditure we.re passed by. the Assembly, Loans amounting to £6,250,000 are provided for. Of this amount £2,500,000; is for redemption of loans that fall doe next year, £1,500,000 for railway* and tramways, and £250,000 for the Barren' jack reservoir.

THUNDERSTORM IN SYDNEY. Sydney, December 18. : A violent thunderstorm visited Sydney last night. A boy named Oaßll. who was driving a cart at Basley, was struck dead. THE WESTRALIAN STORM, Perth, December 18. It is estimated that fifty people perished in the recent storm which wrecked many of the vessels of the pearling fleet at Broome. The damage done 1« valued at £20,000.