AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MOTOR-CYCLE RACE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, January 3. Eighteen out of twenty-seven starters in the motor cycle reliability race from Melbourne to Sydney finished, fifteen securing full points. QUEENSLAND IMMIGRANTS. 1 Brisbane, January 3. _ j Up to last night 6500 assisted immigrants arrived, only ihalf the previous year's arrival. SYDNEY TRAMWAY ACCIDENT. Sydney, January 3. The Board of Inquiry into Saturday's smash finds that it was caused by the disablement of the brake gear, but it could have been easily averted if the driver had applied the current promptly. ■- MOUNT LYELL RETURNS. Melbourne, January 3. Mount Lycll returns, from November 28 to December 25 inclusive, show that 9122 tons of ore, also 4004" tons of Tharsis fluxes, were treated by converters, which produced 90 tons blister cop- 1 per, containing: Copper .89 tons, silver 15,012 ounces, and gold 353 ounces. AYESTRALIAN GOLD YIELD. Perth, January 3. The gold yield last year was 1,282,651 ounces fine, compared with 1,370,816 in the previous year. The decrease in value was £359,280.

TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. Hobart, January 3. Writs for a general election on January 23 have been issued. THE CURE OF TUBERCULOSIS. Sydney, January 3. The Government will shortly establish anti-tuberculosis dispensaries throughout the State, AN IMPERIAL HISTORY. Sydney, January 3. in Imperial History, based on the lines of a similar school book recently suggested in England by Mr. Sydney Low, lias been published by the University. . THE CATHOLIC FEELING. Hobart, January 3. Dr. Delanev, Roman Catholic Archbishop, in a letter to the press, protests against the appointment of Mr. Macartney, a past grandmaster of an Orange Lodge of Ulster, as Governor of Tasmania. He adds that if the Premier knew the facts and acquiesced in the appointment, he must not be surprised to learn that Catholics feel rightly aggrieved! at t'he turn to be played off on them. The Tasmanian branch of the United Irish League also cabled protests to Messrs. Redmond, Asquith and Lloyd George.

ITINERANT TEACHERS. Sydney, January 3. The Government is extending the system of itinerant teachers. They will cany a tent for school purposes and reach scattered children out back who are unable to attend proper schools. ROBBED IN* THE TRAIN. Sydney, January 3. Mr. Cohen, -a member of the Assembly, while returning from the Blavney campaign, was robbed while sleeping in a train, -of thirty pounds, a gftld watch and a meinuer's pass and chain. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. Sydney. January 3. A man i-.amed Adams shot his cousin, Mrs. Lambert. The latter, whom Adams coveted for years, recently married, and jealousy was tho cause. The woman is in a precarious state. WEEK-END CABLEGRAMS. Sydney, January 3. The Herald comments strongly on the new scheme for week-end cablegrams a« sure to become a hugely popular medium of oversea communication.