AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1916, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RECORD WOOL PRICE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, June 14. Another wool record, is fleecy scoured, which brought 38Jd. GERMAN MINERS DISMISSED. Sydney, June 14. The Germans employed at the Pelawmain, Stanford and Merthyr pits have been dismissed and the miners have resumed work. EARTHQUAKE AT SYDNEY. Sydney, June 14. Distinct earthquake shocks were felt in Sydney. People were awakened by the shaking of their beds and the rattling of crockery. Buildings were violently shaken in some , places. •THE STRTICE"L~AND.» Sydney, June 14. Addressing commercial men at Newcastle, Mr. Sutter, Eastern Trade Commissioner, referred to the strike evil, which was responsible for the State losing all the Eastern coal trade. New South Wales was known all over Asia as the strike land. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MEAT * SHORTAGE. Adelaide, June 14. It is officially stated that, owing to the meat shortage, there is a possibility of South Australia getting meat on restricted coupons issued by the Government. The Cabinet will be asked to legislate to permit the sale of frozen meat from other States or New Zealand during the period, the State is suffering from the effect of drought. VENEREAL DISEASES, I

Melbourne, June 14. The Federal Committee which is inquiring into death and invalidity has imblished a leport dealing with vencre.il diseases. It urges the- instruction of boys of fifteen by schoolmasters on the necessity of clean living and continence, and recommends legislation to abolish quacks and compel notification and treatment bj (ua-lified practitioners, and general action to insure compulsory treatment and supervising. DEFECTIVE MUNICIPAL LAW. Sydney, June 14. An important High Court decision has been given on the recent city aldermanic election. It was discovered that thirteen strangers were allowed to vote in the names of others who were entitled to vote but did not. The Supreme Court decided that the candidate for whom the votes were recorded was not duly elected and granted an ouster order. An appeal against the order was made to the High Court which, by a majority, granted the appeal, the dissentient being the Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Barton (Chief Justice), on the delivery of the verdict, invited public attention to the state of the law, which showed that if sullieient personators to turn the scale voted, yet such election was valid and could not be upset. As the majority of the Bench ruled thus he was bound to accept the decision as correctly declaring the law until the decision was overruled or the law altered, but he could not believe it expressed the deliberate will of the Parliament or people of the Commonwealth.