AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 181, 18 December 1912, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A WOULD-BE SENATOR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, December 17. Peter Bowling intends to stand as a candidate for the Federal Senate, cn the Independent Labor ticket. PUNISHMENT FOR CADETS Melbourne, December 17. Besides having to make up evaded drills, in future defiant cadets wiJ be detained ten days in barracks. THE ALBERT MEDAL. Port Darwin, December 17. At a large gathering the Administrator presented a black boy named .Neighbour with the Albert medal for gallantly plunging into a flooded rjvor and saving the life of a constable who was conducting his rescuer to prison A LOST CONTINENT. Sydney, December 17. ' Professor David considers the Aurora's recent discoveries of great scientific interest. There is little doubt that the expedition found a fragment of the Lost Continent which once stretched, perhaps continuously, from Tasmania, by way of Antarctica, to Patagonia.

} TOE GIRL SCOUTS. Melbourne, December 17. Archbishop Carr, at a confirmat'on function, denounced the Girl Scout movement. lie hoped parents would not forget their duty so far as to allow their daughters to become Scouts. Scouting required girls to be far dis- | tant from their homes without parental j control. Besides the physical danger j there were grave moral objections lo I the conditions inseparable from canip--1 ing out.