AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 212, 6 March 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

! YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, March 5. An hotel keeper at Rushcutters, Bay had an exciting experience with a masked and armed burglar, by whom he was awakened.in $e middle of the night. A revolver was presented at his head, and the burglar demanded money. He subsequently escaped with £2O. He ii probably the same individual who. has been terrorising residents of other suburbs for several weeks. TWO MEN DROWNED. Sydney, March 5. Athol Swain and William Bennett were crossing the Bellinger Heads in a flat-bottomed boat when they wer« washed out to sea. The boat was overturned in the breakers, and the men have not been seen since. MIXED BATHING CONDEMNED. ■• Melbourne, March 5. The Methodist Conference passed resolutions in favor of the abolition of mixed bathing, and protesting against the increase in ' Sunday trains. Other resolutions protested against the legalisation of the totalisator, and urged legislation rendering illegal art unions and lotteries held in aid of churches and schools. i ' CHEMISTS' SHOP HOURS. j ~ Sydney, March 5. Mr. Beeby promised a deputation that he would introduce legislation placing . chemists under early closing regulations.