AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 28 October 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

N.S.W. VITAL STATISTICS. j By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. Sydney, October 27. The marriages in New South Wales last year were the highest on record,' the rate being by .3 per 1000 the high- ■ est since 1880. ! The death rate is 9 per cent, below the mean rate for the past ten years. Deaths from cancer have doubled in twenty years. Deaths from tuberculosis in the past year were 6 per sent, below the average for five years. The i result is largely attributed to the Work-: ing Dairies Supervision, Diseased Meat and Public Health Acts. The excess of> births over deaths totalled 27,929. The population of the State at the end of the year was 1,645,444. THE PERICLES ROCK. Perth, October 27. The warship Fantome will conduct a: search for the rock on which the Pericles was wrecked. ] . REDEEMING DEBENTURES. I Perth, October 27. The Premier, in his Budget speech, announced that he intended to redeem £1,870,000 of 4 per cent, debentures in April. PLEUROPNEUMONIA. Sydney, October 27. An outbreak of pleuropneumonia in cattle is reported from Weewaa.

PLASTERERS ON STRIKE. Melbourne, October 27. The majority of the employees in the plastering trade have struck on account of the masters refusing a demand for the increase of wages from Is 4d to Is Gd per hour. INADEQUATE NEWS SERVICE. Sydney, October 27. The report of the annual conference of the Country Press Association referred to the scandalous inadequacy of the telegraphic service. FIRE AT SYDNEY. Sydney, October 27. Goulston's auctioneers' premises in Pitt street have been destroyed by fire. The damage is heavy, but the amountis not stated. RAILWAY PROGRESS. Sydney, October 27. The Clyde Engineering Company has secured a contract for fifty additional i railway locomotives to cost £283,500. J [The Wade Government's last act was: to order £300,000 worth of railway locomotives.]

[ A MURDERER REPRIEVED. ' Adelaide, October 27. The capital sentence on Hine for the murder of his wife on August 10 has been commuted to imprisonment for life. [Hine, who had lived unhappily with his wife, cut her throat and inflicted a severe wound on his own throat.] FUMIGATION OF FRUIT. Melbourne, October 27. At the annual conference of the Aus tralian fruitgrowers, amongst the resolutions carried was one in favor of clean fruit ex-orchard being admitted at a port of entry without fumigation. Mr. Izard (New Zealand) declared that of fruit was not fumigated it must be critically examined. 'Any to have the fumigation regulations lightened in New Zealand would meet little support from the Department of Agriculture.