AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 179, 16 December 1912, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

| . J DEAR CHRISTMAS FARE. |By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. ! _ Sydney, December 14. Foodstuffs are 2,3 per cent, dearer all round compared with last Christmas, due partly to decreased supplies. A BOOTH MEMORIAL. Melbourne, December 14. The, Governor opened a Salvation Army home, for children, the lirst memorial in the world to General Booth. GREEK NOT WANTED. Melbourne, December 14. Melbourne University Senate decided to withdraw Greek from the Bachelor of Arts degree examination. SECRET REMEDIES. Melbourne. December 14. I After a division forced by the Labor I members the House read and ordered to |be printed, a petition from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, including I a resolution of the London Chamber, [asking that the issue by the Government I of a book entitled '-'Secret Remedies" be deferred until receipt of affidavits' from London, showing that many of the analyses there were incorrect. SHUTTING DOWN ON IMMIGRATION. Sydney, December 14. As the outcome of the decision to shut down immigration, except of nominated wives and children of immigrants already here. Mr. Percy Hunter, who was despatched early in 1912 to superintend immigration, has been recalled.

A TELTXTRAPIHC STRIKE. Sydney, December 14. At a meeting of telegraphists it was unanimously decided absolutely to refuse to work under the new stall' hours, coming .into force on Monday. The telegraphists 4iiv prepared to continue under existing conditions until the matter: is settled in the Arbitration Court. The complaint was caused by broken shift?, which, inst? ul of bi iiig reduced and abolished as expected, have been increased [and made more irksome. A GEYIvROU.S Sf'ITKM i:. Melbourne, December 13. Advices have been received from London that D.riglas Shields, late of Melbourne. has mirehawed a mansion in Park Lane, London. and will spend £70,000 on converting it into a modern private hospital with seventy beds, of which a number have been endowed in perpetuity by Mrs. T!. J. Fink as a memorial to her sou TTaiold, for the free surgical treatment of poor gentlefolk.