AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1920, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. By Telecraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Jan. C. Mr. Gardiner lias been elected to tfio Senate. Labor lias now also hopes of winning a seat each in Victoria, Westralia, and Queensland. PRICE OF LINSEED RAISED. Sydney, Jan. 6. The Necessary Commodities Commission has increased the price of linseed j meal £3 per ton. VITAL STATISTICS. Sydney, Jan. 6. The Government Statistician estimates the population of New South Wales at 1,984,384 to the end of September, and as at the average rate of increase the second million mark has now been passed, it means there will be a re-distribu-tion of seats in the House of Representatives as provided by the Constitution, whereby New South Wales will gain one seat at the expense of Victoria. HOSKINS' WORKS CLOSED. Sydney, Jan. '<s. Hoskins have closed all their works at Lithgow and elsewhere, rendering 3000 men idle, and unless increases in freight are suspended it will be impossible to re-open them. A STRIKE ENDED.

Brisbane, Jan. <5. The "go-slow" strike at Townsville, cabled on December 8, has ended.

[The watersiders at Townsville decided to adopt a "go-slow" policy until granted an increase of a penny an hour for special cargoes.] DISEASE AT NOUMEA. Sydney, Jan. fi. The steamer Roggeveen, recently from New Caledonia, has been quarantined, owing to an outbreak of influenza aboard. A cable from Noumea states that one of the steamer patients who landed there developed smallpox, and others influenza. Several of the latter died. The victims were coolies