AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
INVALIDITY AND OLD AGE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 21, 11.23 p.m. Melbourne, March 21. The cost of invalid and old age pensions lias reached £1,000,000 per annum. The total recipients are 75,942. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. Received 21, 11.25 p.m. Brisbane, March 21. The inspector in the Mackay district reports that last year 12'/ s tons of beetles, exceptionally destructive to sugar cane, were destroyed, at a cost of £827. BROKEN HILL MINERS. Received 22, 12.50 a.m. Sydney, March 21. A referendum of Broken Ilill miners largely favored signing the wages agreewith the proprietors. BIBLE TERCENTENARY. Received 22, 12.50 a.m. Sydney, March 21. Arrangements have boei. completed for celebrating the Bible tercentenary on the same dates as the British celebrations. AN ANTARCTIC EXPLORER. Received 22, 12.50 a.m. Fremantle, March 21. Professor David is a passenger by the Orviclo. He has completed arrangements for the publication in England of his geological memoirs on the Shack! Eton expedition.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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157AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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