AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 183, 7 September 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE WHEAT AREA. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyriga Received 7, 0.20 a.m. Sydney, September 0. Tile estimated area ill New South Wales under wheat is 2,240,400 acres, an increase of 251,300 acrcß. Tho estimated area of cut grain ia 477,000 acres more than last year.

N.S.W. DRINK BILL. Sydney, September 6. ~ Canon Boyce's annual review of the liquor traffic in New South Wales says that the drink bill of last year "was £5,383,570, an average of £3 7s 6d per head of the whole (population, which is 'd a head above the 'previous year. It ascribes the increase to prosperous

I PORTLAND STRIKE SETTLEMENT. Sydney, September 0. A compromise has been reached in regard to the Portland strike. Work is to be resumed to-day conditional on Jie mens claims being considered bv a wages Board.

SPEARED TO DEATH AND EATEN. Sydney, September 6. News from the Bismarck Archipelago [states that an Australian Tabor r*fruiter named Lindsay has been speared to death by the natives, It is reported that Ills body was eaten at 'Port Dar.nvin.

THE PRESS CONFERENCE. , r -r, Sydney, September 6. •no 1 editor-in-chief of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, has return•ed. He declared that the Imperial Press could not fail to have a "tar-reaching and time- enduring in lluence for good on the oversea dominaons.