AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 46, 19 March 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

\ I.AUOK AT ! Received ilarch 18, 11.13 p.m. f\ y>'(lncy, March 18. 1 lie Amalgamated Miners' Association has endorsed the actioa of the combined unions over the Junction North settlement. A stubborn minority fought hard in favor of adopting extreme measures, but were outvoted. Till; BROKEN HILL CASE. Received March 18, 11,13 p.m. Melbourne, March 18.' Judge lliggins, i u settling the details of the Broken Hill arbitration award, gave the claimant minors nil costs and expenses involved in the inquiry aa between party and party. A NEW USE FOR RABBITS. Received March 10, 1.8 a.m. (Sydney, Last Night. Jwo thousand live rabbits arc being sent to the Philippines to the order of the United States Government, for experimental purposes, with a view to discovering a serum which will render horses and cattle immune from a disease resembling rinderpest, which i 3 causin" much mortality among stock.

DEADLY ICE CREAM. Received .March 19, 1.8 a.m. Perth, Last Night. In a'case against two Italian ice-cream, sellers, the Government analyst, iu his evidence, stated that the samples of icecream contained 15 million microbe organisms to the cubic centimetre. Some of the organisms would cause peritonitis. A guinea pig inoculated therewith died in 15 minutes.

TOPrWTION FIGURES. Melbourne, March 17. Hie Commonwealth population returns show Victoria's increase for the year to be 23,0711, Xew South Wales' *22,730, South Australia's 14,515, Queensland's 10,580, \\ cstralia'a 5547, and Tasmania's 1816. Males outnumber females by 228,744. Victoria is the only State where there are more women than men.

ST. PATRICK'S DAV C'Kf.KniJATIOX. Melbourne, March 17. At the St. Patrick's Day hnnqnet, Karl Dudley, Oovernor-fJeneial of Australia, rofevrinp: to his term of office in Ireland, «aid lie was convinced that tho great majority of people in Ireland at heart were ih loyal as any other people in the King's dominions.

TIIJ'I PLAdllv. Sydney, March 1". Another city inspector has been suspended for alleged neglect of dutv in connection with the outbreak ot plague. A rat-catcher al Newcastle has develop•l suspicions of illness. TTo arrived a ' days since from Sydney, where ho was engaged rat-catching at Wearne's lloiirmill.