AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

I RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. . Australlan-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, July 4. Tho Government has decided to stop the construction of the city railway, ! and use all loan money available for the Railway Department for the construction of rolling stock and duplications and the completion of the revenue producing lines. SHEEP SALES. Sydney, July 4. At the sheep sales high prices were ! paid for Tasmanian Merinos. Top, a Canoubar ram, four hundred guineas; : a Deriliquin ram 370gns. A Boon'oke j ram (brought 3000 on ■ behalf of France's day fund. QUEENSLAND STOCK RETURNS. Received July 5. 5.5 p.m. ißri*ane, July 5. The stock returns for the year show that there are 697,5U7 horses, an increase of 10,04'fi compared with the previous j year : cattle number J',76n.6r>7 and slicmi ] 1'5,524,2'M, decreases of 15,23fi and 425,5G1 respectively. AUSTRALIAN STRIKES. ■Received July 5, 6.5 p.m. ■ Melbourne, July 5. There were 50S strikes in Australia in 1!>1C, involving 170,093 employees who iost in the, agarrgnte 2.07i8,030. working days and £007,(704 in wages. INCREASING THE RAiTNFALL. Melbourne, July 5. Mr. Walt stales that comparisons made and data collected over the years , 1015 and imo indicate that Mr. Bal- | sillie's scheme lias produced increased ; rainfall of 'between 50 and 70 per cent. . in the Bookalloo area. j The Federal Government proposes to I erect plants in Victorian and New South I Wales' wheat areas. VICTORIAN POLITICS. Received July 5, 5.5 p.m. 1 Melbourne, July 5. j Mr. Elmslie's no-conlidenee motion was I lost by 30 votes to 'lO.