AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 164, 28 November 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COLLAPSE OF THEATRE GALLERY. ! By Gable—Press Association—Copyright. | Melbourne, November 27. j A temporary gallery in the theatre | at Bairnsdale collapsed ami a hundred people fell. Some of the audience fled, but a panic was averted. Several pcr- ! sons were injured, one seriously. j A MAN ELECTROCUTED, i Adelaide, November 27. Mr. Webb, : ,u electrician, was found electrocuted at the tramway power--1 house. He was apparently in the act of raising his head, when he inadvertently touched an 11,000-volt wire. 1 THE AMERICAN BEEF TRUST. Melbourne, November 27. Mr. Tudor says he has definite information that the American Beef Trust is starting operations in Australia almost immediately. Enquiries have continued the statement that the Trust lias obtained a site on the Brisbane river. The official view j* that the Trust wiil be able to work in with the inter-State shipping companies, but not under such favorable conditions as in America. THE COST OF GIVING. Melbourne, November 27. In the -vrbiLration Court, figures were presented by the Commonwealth statistician, showing a comparison of the cost of living in Australian cities. Melbourne was taken as the basis, at 1000 units. The principal others were Kalgoorlie and Boulder City 1-287, Sydney HI4, Adelaide. Tertli and Fremantle' 1107, ifobart 970, Brisbane 037. new south: wales loans. Sydney, November 27. A question was asked in the Assembly whether it was intended to borrow £1,500.000 to complete the £8,000,000 loan of which only half had been recently secured. Mr. Caim replied in the affirmative.