AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 260, 24 March 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

LOCALLY-MADE PREJUDICE. By Gable—Prest> Association—Copyright. Melbourne, March 23. At the master tanners' picnic complaint was made of the blind prejudice against locally-made goods, especially boots and shoes. EXODUS TO THE CORONATION. Sydney, March 23. The exodus to the Coronation will have a marked effect on the census returns. In New South Wales alone it means the loss of several thousand names from the rolls. THE POTATO BLIGHT. Sydney, March 23. The whole of the potato crops from Sydney to the Victorian border are suffering from blight. THE NAVAL SQUADRON. Sydney, March 23. H.M.S. Drake will replace the Powerful as flagship. THE SOLAR ECLIPSE. Sydney, March 23. The advance party of the 9olar eclipse expedition arc passengers by tho Maheno. The balance will leave by the Tofua on Tuesday. The Encounter is leaving Sydney on Saturday, and conveys the English expeditions to Vavau. FLU-MELBOURNE SERVICE. Melbourne. March 23. Owing to the heavy banana crop in Fiji arrangements have been made for the Manapouri to resume the direct service from Fiji to Melbourne on May 2. HIGHWAYMEN ARRESTED. Brisbane, March 23. Two of the alleged Mount Ciithbert highwaymen were arrested at Donaldson while sleeping. CHAFFINCH MINE PROSECUTION. Perth, March 2.'!. The prosecution in the Chaffinch Mine ease is seeking to establish whether there is any truth in the rumors that some samples taken from the property had been salted. THE NORTH ERN TERRITORY. Melbourne, March 23. The Royal assent has been granted to the Northern Territory Acceptance Bill. TIMBER TRADE DISPUTE. Melbourne, March 23. The compulsory conference on the timber trade trouble proved abortive. The employers declined to budge on the question of the employment of nonunionists.