AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 78, 19 August 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY. Py Cable—Press Association—Cepyright. Melbourne, August 17. At a meeting of the Secondary Teachers' Association Professor Berry referred, to the remarkable progress of the Sydney University. In five years he stated the professorships there would be increased from eighteen to thirty-six, and the university was likely to become one of the finest in the Empire: Melbourne required a quarter or lialf a million to make it go ahead properly.

LOCAL CARNIVALS. Melbourne, August 17. ]' A scheme has been mooted to concen- j trate and augment' the sporting and other outdoor fixtures in the various States. Starting with the Royal Show in September, local carnivals, including the Caulfield and Melbourne races and Henley regatta, extend over thre« ' months. The scheme proposes to compress these into a shorter period. It is thought that if Sydney similarly concentrated and terminated the period with the spring races, it would be a great attraction to Britons, Americans and others.

A BANK' OF LIQUIDATORS. Melbourne, August 17. The liquidators of the Metropolitan Bank, after 20 years, have £75,000 to distribute to shareholders, all creditors having been paid in full. TRADE WITH HULL. Melbourne. August 17.' The special trade commissioner from Hull states that 09 per cent, of, the producers and merchants in Australia favor direct trade with Hull. ( THE ALIEN INVASION. ! Hobart, August 17. I The Premier lias promised a Ministerial inquiry into the circumstances leading to several Indians taking orchard land near Devonport. Six signed statements that they threw- up good positions in India. They amderstood that the agent who sold the land was acting on behalf of the Government and alleged that he misled them by lithographed copies of letters bearing the Government seal. Some are now I stranded.