AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 43, 12 August 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CONVICTIONS FOR DRINK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, August 11. Archdeacon Boyce attributes the increased convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand to n wave of intemperance, and positively states that it does not give a ease against no-license. TRAIN DERAILED BY A COW. Brisbane, August 11. A privately-owned sugar train at Bingera struck a cow, and the engine and four trucks were derailed and thrown down an embankment. The weighing superintendent was killed. A later report states that the driver, Conway by name, was also killed. '. The weigher's name was 'Killer.

SHORTAGE OF LABOR. Sydney, August 11. The secretary of the Plasterers' Union, in giving evidence before the Labor Commission, declared that, because an employer asked liim if certain applicants were sober and good mechanics, he considered lie did not want men, and denied that a shortage existed. A WOMAN IDENTIFIED. Sydney, August 11. The body of the woman who committed suicide, who was supposed to be named Wilson, has been positively identified as that of Ellen Margaret Bonch formerly a lodging-honso keeper at Woolloomooloo, Sydney. In July she visited Auckland, 'with the intention' of seeing her sister, whose name is well known. It is believed she did not call on her sister. A HEALTHY CITY. Sydney, August 11. The annual report of the Medical and Health Officer shows that last year the deaths recorded in Sydney were 10!) per 100, the lowest death rate in the world. The infant mortality was 8' per 1000. The births were also highly satisfactory. Cases of consumption have greatly decreased.