AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 31, 31 July 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PICTURE ENTERPRISE. By Oable—Press AsßocMion—Copyright. Sydney, July 29. j A picture theatre association is being formed, with a capital of £2,000,000,] to operate in Canada, the United States, England, Australia and South Africa. The Australian section of tiie capital has already been promised. It will be the greatest association of the kind in the world. MOTORIST KILLED. Melbourne, July 29. John Fisher, jun., a well-known manufacturer, was killed while driving a motor without lights. He crashed into a -spring cart, and the driver of the cart and a passenger in the motor were slightly injured. THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY. Melbourne, July 2f|. The Acting-Minister of Defence states that the confidential portion of MajorGeneral Kirkpatrick's report on the army is not at all alarming. STATE SHIPYARDS. ] Melbourne, July 29. i The Victorian Government has start- [ ed State shipbuilding yards. ' CROP PROSPECTS. .•.ru-tr-sr. Sydney, July 29. The crop outlook in New South Wales, except in a few places, is favorable. Wheat and cereals are showing most promisingly. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Perth, July 29. The steamer Karoola, while off Cape Naturaliste, communicated by wireless telegraphy with Cocos Island, a distance of 2200 miles. POLITICAL CRUELTY. Brisbane, July 29. Addressing a meeting of the Society for tiie Prevention of Cruelty, the Governor, Sir William McGregor, declared that Europeans practised political cruelty by making a large area of Africa subject to themselves. The great nations were proceeding to put into force another political cruelty in respect of the unfortunate inhabitants of Morocco.