AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 2 March 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN NAVAL BASE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, March 1. Sir Reginald Henderson has presented » report containing the result of six n.onths' inspection of,the principal ports of the Commonwealth with a view to selecting a naval base. COMBATTING TUBERCULOSIS. Melbourne, March 1. The inter-State conference on tuberculosis has opened. It was decided that compulsory notification was the first step towards combatting the disease, and that the doctors attending cases should notify the health authorities. The conference is sitting in camera. . THE COAL VEND. Sydney, March 1. Mr. Hughes denies that the object of the pending prosecutions is to smash the coal vend. It is simply an enforcing of the law as he finds it. BOYCOTTING BARBERS. Sydney, March 1. Broken Hill unionists suggest a boycott of hairdressers on account of their raising the price of shaving from threepence to fourpenee, and haircuttin" from sixpence to a shilling. | RECORD IMMIGRATION. Melbourne, March 1. Eleven hundred immigrants are on board the steamer Rangatira—a record number. | REASONABLE EMPLOYERS. ' Melbourne, March 1. The Melbourne Steam Ship Company, at the half-yearly meeting, decided, owing to the general prosperity, to increase all employees' salaries 10 per cent. THE RENMARK STRIKE. Adelaide, March 1. Hotels and clubs arc closed at Renmark, where the strike is in progress. TOE PERTH TRAGEDY. Perth, March 1. The Executive Council has decided that Smart is to be hung on Tuesday,