AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 323, 9 June 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN NOTE ISSUE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, June 8. The value of the Australian note issue having passed £7,000,000, it is now necessary for the Federal Treasurer to keep a pound for pound gold reserve against all further issues. SMOKING DURING MEETING, 'uey, June 8. In order .fere with the

comfort of lady members, the Straw Hat Workers' Union Adopted a selfdenying ordinance prohibiting smoking during meetings. A motion was moved and seconded by inveterate smokers with pipes in full blast. WAGES OX SUGAR PLANTATIONS.' Brisbane, June 8. The Customs Department has decreed that sugar growers employing aboriginals must pay them the same wages as whites. COLD STORE FOR BRISBANE. Brisbane, June 8. The Government is erecting a central cold storage depot at Brisbane, at a cost of £70,000. A PRISONER'S ESCAPE. Adelaide, June S. A prisoner travelling from Freniantlc to Sydney by the steamer Karoola, unscrewed his cabin door and escaped during the constable's absence. TRAMWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES. Melbourne, June 8. The president of the Tramway Employees' Association, after a visit to various States, asserts that there is a. general discontent amongst tram employees over a wide area. If a strike does occur it will affect the whole, of Australia.

STRIKE OF ADELAIDE CARTERS. Adelaide. June S. There is a recurrence of the drivers' trouble, 'numbers of drivers, under the direction of the union, declining to handle goods from Renmark, where the fruitgrowers' trouble is still in progress. OLD MAN'S MAD ACTION. Adelaide, .Tune S. As the result of a quarrel, sin old man named Olendinning shot and wounded a boy. When arrested Glendenning had five bullet wounds in his head, having attempted suicide. THE BRISBANE STRIKE. Brisbane, June 8. Though the strike at the gasworks lias not been officially declared at an end. all the employees, except the union officials, have applied for re-engage-ment. FTRK AT BROKEN HILL. Sydney, June S. A fire at Broken Hill, Block Ten mine, destroyed a change house containing 300 suits of clothes belonging to the night shift. I