AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 7 March 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FIRE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Sydney, March 6. Another country fire occurred, at Moulamain, where three shops, a bakehouse and a private residence were destroyed. Lack of water hindered fighting operations. The damage is estimated at £4OOO. HULL AS A PORT FOR PRODUCE. Sydney, March 6. Mr. Wilson, Trade Commissioner from Hull, is greatly struck with the phenomenal progress made by Australian producers, but says they must wake up to the fact that another port besides London required their produce, otherwise a glut would spoil their market. Thirty million people outside London's area of distribution could be better and more cheaply reached from Hull than from other outposts. TEE MOUNT MORGAN MINE. Brisbane, March 6. During February the Mount Morgan gold reduction works treated 5254 tons ore, which produced 3650 ounces gold. The copper reduction works 1 treated 17,784 tons for 512 tons blister copper, containing 507 tons copper and 7520 ounces gold. The yield was affected by the strike, a section of the men trolled from Brisbane causing a temporary shutting down of the works. INCREASED RENTS COMMITTEE. Sydney, March 6. Mr. Griffiths, giving evidence before the'lncreased Rents Committee, said high rents were chiefly due to the increase of the price of labor and materials. The present prosperity was not ephemeral or extravagant. The products of Australia had received world-wide recognition, and the Commonwealth was merely beginning to realise a larger share of the general prosperity. There might be modification of prosperity, but never anything like a bursting of the land boom. MBOR M.P.'S MUST BE WAGE EARNERS. Melbourne, March 6. Among the proposals for consideration by the Political Labor Council is a provision that all Labor candidates in Parliament and other public bodies must be wage earners. UNDERGROUND RAILWAY PROPHESIED. Sydney, March 6. Mr. McGowen states that in the near future the present system of trams will be superseded by an underground tail.