AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 222, 7 February 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'• j CO-OPERATIVE CEMENT WORKS. " [ By Cable—Press Association—Copyright B I Received 6, 9.35 p.m. J Sydney, February 0. The Unionists at Portland are con- . sidering a project to establish co-opera- , tive cement works and raise a capital of .£200,000 by levying 3d a week'on union- . J ist.-i in New South Wales and other States. THE .DOMINIONS COMMISSION. Sydney, February 6. The Dominions Commission will eom- . uience its New South Wales investigations on April 11, and will occupy a | fortnight. Seven commissioners are coming, but their names have not been divulged. MUNICIPAL FISH MARKETS CONDEMNED. Sydney, February (i. Mr. Crane, supervising inspector of fisheries, in a report, the system of a municipal li<h market as ineftieient and wasteful. THE TERRA NOVA. Sydney, February 0. Professor David expects the Terra Nova to return to New Zealand in March. THE BISLEY TEAM. Sydney, February (I. Three, members of the Commonwealth team for Bisley will be Arthur Cutler (Bathurst). Lieutenant Blaekloul (20th Infantry), and F. O. Harrison (Randwick). RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. i Sydney, February fi. j There has been a cool change after j the dry spell. Brief but beneficial rains I are fairly general. FROZEN MEAT FOR GERMANY, j Sydney, February 6. Germany has ordered 20,000 carcases I of mutton from New South Wales. REINSTATED. Sydney, February 6. As a result of the report of Mr. Justice Hodges, the Royal Commissioner who investigated the allegations made in the House by Mr. Fowler against Henry Chinn, an" engineer employed on the trans-continental railway, the Government will reinstate Chinn immediately, pay his back pay since suspension, and"pay the costs of the defence. . A FATAL RIOT. Sydney, February 6. William James was committed for trial for shooting and murdering Ralph. Albert Chambers'. The evidence showed that there was a row in a navvies' camp fit Marulan. Deceased was shot while ietting a vehicle through the fence. James was heard to say he would shoot the first man coming near, A BROKEN NECK. Sydney, February 0. At the inquest on William McMillan, j whose body was recovered from the Kareelah Creek near the Queensland i border, evidence showed that McMillan, was a, member of a party of four. The I three others returned to Kareelah the I day after the party left, and reported McMillan as missing. Death had resulted from a broken neck before the body entered the water. As there was I no evidence' to show how th_e accident ! occurred, an open verdict was returned. J A NEW JUDGE. ; Melbourne, February fi. l Mr. Frank Duffy will succeed the late ! Mr. Justice O'Connor as Judge of the High Court. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Sydney, Fehruary fi. William Patrick Cranston was committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter of James Murphy. Evidence showed that the two quarelled in a cafe. Cranston struck Murphy, who in ■j falling hit his head on the pavement. I A FATAL FIRE. Melbourne, February (!. Mrs. Archer, her daughter Mrs. Petersen, and the hitter's daughter, twelve months old, were fatally burned at Lake Colao. The curtains were blown on a candle. Mrs. Petersen's other children escaped.