AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1919, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

\ ' PERTH fRAM STRIKE, ■■ ■■ ' Perth, Deo. 31. The tram strike continues, the men stating that, as the Government is bent on starving them into submission organised labor throughout Australia lias, been appealed, to for assistance. , INFLUENZA AT PERTH. Perth, Dec. 31. There are seven fresh cases of influenza in quarantine. EDUCATION OP DEAF AND DUMB. Sydney, Dec. 31. Th» Minister of Education is introducing a Bill next session making the education of deaf, diunb, and ° blind children compulsory. AIAKURA STILL DELAYER, Sydney, Dee 31. The K&kura i 3 delayed, tha men refusing to sail unless granted higher wages. Received Jan. 1, 11.30 a.m. Sydney, Jan. 1. The crew refuse to man the Makura unless each man is insured for £SOO against death from inflAienza. ONE BIG UNION SCHEME. Sydney, Dee. 31. The one big union scheme is meeting with considerable opposition in Labor circles. One union leader states that a movement is being inaugurated in opposition, as such a wild-cat venture could never succeed. ESCAPED PRISONERS Sydney, Dec. SI, The Bathurst district is in a state of alarm at the escape of two life-sentenc-ed murderer, Stciner and Leigh. They worked in the blacksmith's shop at the gaol and secured and hid tools. Stciner cut a hole in the ceiling of his cell and then made a hole in Leigh's. The men squeezed through naked, got clothes and a rope in the workshop and scaled the outer wall during the temporary absence of the warder.

Steiner left an intimation that he would, never be captured alive.—Aus,N.Z. Cable Assoc.

NEW YEAR'S EVE. Received Jan. 1, 1.35 p.ia. Sydney, Jan. 1. New Year's Eve was quiet and ordurly the streets being deserteH. BANKRUPTCY RETURNS. The New South Walo3 bankruptcy re turns for the year show 297, with liability,, amounting to £221,923, againsl £227,550 for ths prtlious year.