AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 3 January 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PIG-IRON FROM CHINA. By -Cable—Press Association—Copyright. .Sydney, December :il. The steamer St. Yibans from China brought 700 tons o! Chinese-manufactur-ed pig-iron for .'Melbourne. THE )•'I'II)ERAL TREASURY. Melbourne, December 31. The Federal Treasury made the final payment under the Braddon clause to the States yesterday. The amounts totalled £2.100,000. Future payments will be on the basis of 25s per capita. • COAL TRADE DEPRESSION". Sydney, December The I'nder-Secretary of Mines reports that the market depression in the coal trade i- principally noticeable in the decline of shipments to oversea ports. A BUILDING BOOM. Sydney, Deei-mber 31. Statistics prepared by the master builders' organisation show that Unbuilding trade is booming in the capitals of encjfi State, and that all kind's of labor aro sctirce. K J OBITUARY. I. Sydney, December 31. Oljitiu r y. j[ r , ciibborn, ex-secretary of the .|Austi.'j. ul j oe key Club.

j.MOTOR Ii'irjAHIUTY TEST, i M - d»ev, December 31. .In 'the motor mobility test, I'vler. witii his Triumpli motor, fi rs t. Tlie tiiiM is not calculated yei. -f.-Jikiiison, oil a Triumpl!, w:ls swon.l, and Murphy, on a Bradbury third. The result will not be known f«r SO mc for various reports liuve to bo Eight of the nineteen competitor* The test showed the ncce~sii\ frames and wheels. NEW YE.-Ht'S EVE. Sydney, December Eve was quiet, rowdyism.