AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 233, 20 February 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PAPUAN DEVELOPMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. ■ Brisbane, February 10. Senator Chntaway, at a public meeting:, demanded, an inquiry as to why the settlement and development of Papua was not progressing satisfactorily' and whv the death-rate of natives was treble that in Australia. INCREASED COST OF LtYINC. Sydney, February If). Before the Wages Board inquiry witnesses gave evidence that since 1010 the rent of houses had advanced 20 per cent, and groceries 15 per cent. There had also been a great increase in the cost of clothing. All the witnesses attributed the increase to the greater cost of labor, as the result of Wages Board awards. J. D. WILLIAMS COMPANY. Sydney, February 10. The winding-up petition of the Greater J. D. Williams Amusement Company has been withdrawn. Counsel announcer! that the matter had been settled and the petitioners paid in full. TORRENTIAL STORM. Sydney. February IS, Fierce electric storms and torrential ram and hail have done severe damage to property and crops in a number of country centres. MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Sydney. February 10 A man named Aeheson was found dead in the street at Leicharrlt after a street not. Tile police are without a clue