AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 79, 12 July 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

, THROWN FROM A HORSE. • By Cable.—Press Association.-r-Copyright Received July 11, 7.5 p.m. Melbourne, July 11. Mr. Old, Chief Inspector ol factories, was thrown from a horse to-day and killed.

MOTORIST'S NARROW ESCAPE. (Received July 11, 7.5 p.m. Melbourne, July 11. The Governor's motor was completely wrecked through colliding with a telegraph pole. Captain Hood, the occupant, was slightly injured.

BROKEN HILL MILLIONS. . Received July 11, 7.5 p.m. , Sydney, July 11. The mineral exports from Broken Hill for the half year were valued at £ll,202,000. [ MINISTER BREAKS DOWN. Received July 11, 7.5 p.m. Melbourne, July 11. The Minister of Defence is suffering from nervous' breakdown, and has been i ordered rest. A LEPROSY CASE. Brisbane, July 11. ,A case of leprosy has been discovered in South Brisbane. The sufferer is a schoolbov whose father is an inmate of the lazaret. A MYSTERIOUS VESSEL. Perth, July 11. The mysterious Chinese vessel which [ was first stated to have been a Japanese man-of-war taking soundings and then | a boat shipping cattle is now supposed to have been a schooner fishing for beche-de-mer. ARBITRATION. Svdney, July 11. ' | The Hish Court delivered judgment i'in the case in which a boot manufacturer applied for a writ of prohibition restraining the Federal Arbitration Court and the Employees' Federation from further proceeding upon a recent award. The Court enlarged the order nisi to the next sitting of the Court in Melbourne, when the matter will be reheard.

PUBLIC SERVANTS' SALARIES. Brisbane, July 11. Increases, probably amounting to £IOO,OOO, are to be given to the lower.paid public servants on account of the increased cost of living.

AFTER MANY. DAYS. Sydney, July 11. A discharged revolver has been found near where the body of John Oyer was discovered a year ago. and it is now thiught that he shot himself.