AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 161, 25 November 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SAVINGS BANK INTEREST. By Oable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, November 23. The Savings Bank pays 4 instead of the stipulated 3 ] / 3 per cent, on depositors' accounts, computed to the end of the current year.' SYDNEY CITY COUNCIL. Sydney, November 23. Labor is contesting all the seats for ike City Council, excepting one. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Sydney. November 23. At the welcome to the Olympic crew, Mr. Fitz-Hardinge, who aeLed as stroks, said Leander were lucky to get the side •f the course they did. Tf the Australians had got it, he was confident fchey would have won. THE NORTI-ICOTE CUP. Sydney, November 2-1. Rawhiti IT. lias challenged for the Northcote Yachting Cup next year. MOTOR CYCLE .TOURNEY. Adelaide, November 23. Custance motor-cycled !532 miles in 24 hours, an Australian record. AN AUSTRALIAN CARDINAL. Adelaide, November 23. Archbishop Carr states that so far he knows no foundation for the reported I petition to the Pope with regard to the | appointment of a Cardinal. EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX. Sydney, November 23. Smallpox is prevalent id German and Dutch New Guinea. CABLE CHARGES. Melbourne, November 23. The Postmaster-General, referring to the cable reductions, said they were not worth speaking about. Tf the Imperial Government was not prepared to do something better the Commonwealth must continue to press for the promised subsidiary conference, or the laying of a State-owned trans-Atlantic cable.

A JUDGE'S PROTEST. Sydney, November 23. Judge Hoy don lias been appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the ease of the man Russell who was dismissed from the Kembla colliery. Counsel for Russell sought to obtain a ruling amending the Industrial Act and fixing special rules for southern collieries. Judge Heydon thereupon threw up the Commission, declaring that the counsel was seeking to make him a peg on which they could hang matters not intended ,to be discussed. As a judge of the Arbitration Court he considered it his duty to get as far from politics as possible.