AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 49, 7 June 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PUBLISHING PRIVATE TELEPHONE LISTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received June 6, 11.30 p.m. Melbourne, Last Night. The Commonwealth Postmaster-Gen-eral sought to obtain an injunction to restrain a firm from publishing private telepnone lists. The High Court dismissed the application, holding that private publishing was not an infringement of the law.

THE ISLAND OF PAPUA. Melbourne, June 0. The expenditure of Papua for the last nine months was £41,040, and the receipts £42,766, an increase under both heads of £7OOO, compared with the corresponding period of last year.

VICTORIA'S FINANCES.

Melbourne, June G,

It is probable that in'view of the inevitabteness of reduced returns to the State from the Commonwealth Treasury, and the impossibility of financing out of revenue some of the more urgent public works, the Cabinet will shortly float a loan.

CAPTAIN'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Perth, June 6. During the voyage of the steamer Strathlynes from Baltimore, Captain Gunn mysteriously disappeared on May

A LABOR CONGRESS,

Perth, June 6,

A Labor Congress ,at Bunbury resolved in favor of a Pro-Maternity and Legitimising Bill, full citizenship for women, that women lie recognised in State and Federal departments as having equal economic rights with men, that if Australia be represented at the King's coronation, it be by a civilian and industrial display rather than military, nationalisation of the liquor traffic, State life and fire insurance, stoppage of the alienation of land, and abolition of State Governors.

BAD WEATHER IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, June 0. The weather is very cold and stormy. Twelve inches of snow fell at Dalgety—the heaviest recorded m the district. DOWN WITH GAMBLING. Adelaide. June 6. The Premier, addressing the AntiGambling League, stated that gambling will receive no shelter from him. If the totalisator wore removed, he said, we would have better citizenship.