AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 143, 14 July 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A MUNICIPAL STRIKE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyriga Sydney, July 13. A municipal strike occurred at Broken Hill through the Mayor displacing eight single men to make «.ay tor a similar number of unemployed married men. The Municipal Employees' Association ordered a strike, with the result that all the civil service, including the electric lighting staff, suspended operations. The Mayor then rc-considered his action and work was resumed. BANK TELLER ARRESTED. Melbourne, July 13. James Martin Fitzsimmons, the missing bank teller, has been arrested at Brisbane, An alleged shortage oi between £1)00 and £IOOO was discovered in his, caga. A FATAL FEUD. Brisbane, July 13. As the result of a feud, Michael Dully shot dead his half-brother, Thomas Stack, a hotel-keeper at Croydon. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. Received 13, 0 p.m. Sydney, July 13. The sentence of death passed on Crooks for shooting Sinclair has been committed to life imprisonment. AN' EXTRADITION 'ORDERED. Received 14, 0.5 a.m.

, . . Sydney, July 13. riiu extradition of Howard Stanton Walters hus been ordered on a charge of stealing two horses at I'nkekohe, Acw Zealand. <X)JfI)ITIO\ OK AHOKItJIXALS. Received 14, 0.5 n.ra. Sydney, July 13. During the debate on the censure ih j lion Mv. Donaldson, a member of tlio I Aborigines Protection Hoard, made an appeal on behalf of tin- half-caste child :eu in tlio aborigines' camps, who, he declared, were being dragged up amidst had .surroundings and 'without a chance of lending useful lives. Last vcar there were K>s2 full-blood and 4781' half-caste aborigines in Xew South Wales, Co m . pared with the year 1882, full-bloods showed a decronsc of 4398 and half-1 castes an increase? of 2412.