AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 5, 30 June 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

— — «» —i ARBITRATION ACT. By Cable—Press AsMeiatfoa—Copyright, Sydney, June 29. Mr. Beeby promised a deputation to include writers and artists In the schedule of the Arbitration Act. > THE ALLEGED MEAT COMBINE. Sydney, June 29. Tho complaints made by Tuesday's deputation regarding a combine in the me.-u trade will be referred to the Food Supply Commission. PREVENTING THEATRE QUEUES. Sydney, Juno 29. The Health Committee of the City Council recommends that street queues in connection with theatres should not be permitted. COAL MINE ON FIRE. Brisbane, June 29. The Blair Athol Company's coal mine at Clermont Is on fire, and efforts to extingnish.it hare been unsuccessful. UIEAP STATE BRICKS. Sydney,' June 29. The Government has accepted its first order for bricks, and has undertaken to supply 100,000 at 2(is per 1000, which is nearly. £1 a thousand cheaper than the price charged by the combine. The manager hopes to reduce this price by from five to seven shillings, when the complete plant is erected. HARBOR TRUST'S COMPLAINT. ' Melbourne, June 29. At a-meeting of the Harbor Trust there was some strong criticism of the New South Wales Government. . It was stated that the trust had accepted the Government's tender for dredges in reference to a foreign tender, although the latter was" £IO,OOO cheaper, and now discovered that the Government was importing buckets from Germany and gearing from France. A WOULD-BE SUICIDE'S REPENTANCE. Melbourne, June 29. A resident at Nathala cut his throat with a blunt knife, opened veins in both arms, drank a solution of match-heads, and jumped from n bridge into the river, lie then repented and swam ashore, and is being-medically-treated.