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AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.—press Asjii.- -Copyrljht, Received Dec. 26, 7.30 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 24. The dairymen have given the employers fourteen days' notice of a strike unless their demands for increased pay are granted. Hot and sultry weather characterised the Christmas holidays. Beyond the enormous shopping rush, Christmas Tive passed quietly. A Sabbath calm prevailed to-day.

The Health Department's report ,show 3 6344 deaths in New South Wales from influenza during the year, whereof 3770 were males, largely young men. It is estimated that 290.000, or 30 per cent of the population in the metropolitan area worn attacked. The deaths amounted to 3i)02, the mortality rate being 1.3 per pent of those attacked. Statistical evidence indicates the high value of vaccination as a means for diminishing the more severe complications and loss of life.

Norman Ross, the champion swimmer, arrived by the Niagara. After competing at Brisbane. Melbourne and Adelaide, he proceeds to New Zealand.

Two tragedies marked Christmas Eve. A policeman «nw two men quarrelling in a street at Surrey Hills, but before he was able to reach them a phot was fired and one. dropped dead. The constable chased the assailant, who turned and fired, wounding the constable in the neck. The latter plucked oui. the bullet with his fingers and succeeded in arresting tho man after a desperate struggle.

At Bexley. a butcher battered hi* wife to death with the butt of a gun. and then shot himself. Received Dee. 7.30 ti.tti.

Melbourne, Dec. 24. The Herald has inaugurated tho first rector aerial newspaper delivers service along- the shore? of Port Phillip Bay.—Air-N.Z. Cable Assn.

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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 3

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268

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 3

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