AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1917, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DYNAMITE PLUGS DISCOVIRItt Australiau-N.Z. Cable Association. Melbourne, May 28. The police raided a house at Fitzroj and unearthed enough dynamite plugs and fuses to blow up a street. FOODSTUFF PRICES. \ Sydney, May 28. The new prices fixedare: —Flour &h per ton, bran £4, .pollard £5 10s fa cash delivered on the rail. SHORTER WORKING HOURS. Sydney, May 29. The Labor Council Is calling a* com feronce of all la'bor organisations to discuss the question of shorter working hours with the object of absorbing th» unemployed. '" ELECTION RETURNS. Sydney, May 29." Owing,to the incompleteness of the election flgur.es the Mum of the iwrit/ has bean extended to June 18. WELFARE OF CHffiPREN. Sydney, May 25. At the Child Welfare Conference tha Commonwealth Statistician said that, though Australia stood next to New . Zealand for the lowness of the infant birth-rate, still there waa room for much improvement. Mr. John Sulman advocatid State toothedhood endowment by means of a polltax on all adults exceptiong mothers. A resolution Was 'adopted urging the Government $o take immediate steps to . check the waste of infant life through venereal and other preventive diseases DEATH FROM THE OQiLD. Received May 25, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, May 25. Ooin«tidjßnlt with tie intensely «old / westerlies and record low temperatures, four elderly men dropped dead in the streets last night, FEDERAL TAXATION. Received May 25, 10.30 p.m. Melbourne, May 25.. ' The Federal Cabinet discussed the financial position. It is believed it is considering increases of the income and amusement taxes, and a reduction ol the war profits tax, which has not yet been imposed. .;; BANNING ELTOIBLESi Received May 25, 10.30 p.m. Perth; May 25. The Westralian Trotting Association has decided to refuse jockeyß' and trainers' licenses to single men eligible for military sorviee,