AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1920, Page VIII

AUSTRALIA.

GENERAL ITEMS. By Telkerash —rress A«sn —Copyright. Sydney, August 13. Government has appointed a committee, including newspaper managers with practical knowledge, to test a bulk parcel of Australian timbers for papermaking. Israel Cohen, representative of the Zionist Mission, which is raising funds for the settlement of Jews in Palestine, is now touring the Commonwealth. He will leave fbr New Zealand on the 20th. He has already raised over £30,000 in Australia. The annual report of the Australian ■Jockey Club discloses that the prizes amounted to £IOO,OOO. The totalisator receipts were over a million, and the club's profits £35,000. The New Zealand footballers sailed for home by the Ulimaroa. The censure debntc is proceeding. A Durban bullock brought £Bl at the Orange sales, smashing all records. Its dead weight is estimated at 17001bs. Melbourne, August 13. On her arrival from New Zealand the Northumberland was quarantined. Eight persons are suffering from influenza. Mr Hughes announced that 45,000 tons of coal are coming from Newoastle to Victoria on Thursday to relieve the shortage. It is expected that the Federal Par-, lianientary party comprising four Ministerialists, four Labor and two Country members, will leave on August 28 on a jUlt to th» Pwific Itludt.