AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1922, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DUNTROON COLLEGE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, November 10. Major-General Legge, in a report on Duntroon, states the outstanding event of the year was the decision of the New Zealand Government not to send any more cadets to the college, and withdrawing those actually doing the course. FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Sydney, November 10. The Federal election campaign is coming active. The plethora of candidates comprises Nationalists. Liberals, Country Party, Labour, and Jlr. Catt’s majority Labour section. REDUCTION IN WORKERS. Sydney. November 10. The number of factories in New South Wales at the end of last year was 10,087, an increase of 3‘?2 an the preI vioiifi year. The number of employees I was 122,384, which showed a decrease I of 3361. LINER HELD-UP. Melbourne, November 10. I The seainen of the Orviet-o left the ' ship ic consequence of the owners re- | fusing to pay the Australian rates; The ; Orvieto was carrying Cup passengers, i who have now sailed for Sydney iby the j Ormonde. i FRUIT FREIGHTS REDUCED. Melbourne, November 10. The overseas shipping companies have reduced the freight on fruit from the Commonwealth to the United Kingdom from 6s to 5a per case. N.S.W. STOCK RETURNS. Sydney, November 10. The stock returns show that horses in the State at the end of 1921 totalled 525.431; cattle, 3,251,000; sheep, 34,776,000..