AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
USEFUL RAINFALL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, November 9. Useful rain, as the result of monsoonal disturbances, is falling. LEPROSY IN AUSTRALIA. Sydney, November 9. rr>l 1.. „ 1,,„ 1 I'nftWn
There are nearly a nunareu Known eases of leprosy iii tie Commonwealth, mostly coloured victims. MEAT FAMINE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, November 9. . The meat famine lias broken. It was acute and rabbits and poultry were selling at record prices. THE NKW COAT OF ARMS .
Sydney, November 0. The new Australian coat of arms lias received the sanction of the Heralds College. Besides minor alterations the words "Advance Australia" have been replaced by the word "Australia." . THE LABOR PARTY. Sydney, November 9.
I The president of the Labor Council declares that Mr. Beeby has not been turned down. He denies receiving any offical communication from the Labor executive regarding the referenda. lie says he will not support any proposal for the transference of the whole commerce • power to the Commonwealth.
THE OATH OP ALLEGIANCE. Perth, November 0. A Cadet, sentenced to a month's imprisonment for having refused to take the oath of allegiance to the King, pleaded that the Defence Act contained many provisions with which he disagreed. He might be ordered out in the event of civil strife, and he could not conscientiously take the oath. *
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19121111.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 11 November 1912, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
217AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 11 November 1912, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.