THE WEATHER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 21 July 1906, Page 5

THE WEATHER.

JReoeiyed Jqjy 20,10,30 a.m. SYDNEY, July 20. The thermometer 1 in registered 29deg.—the lowest July for eleven years. In tfie, higher suburbs exposed water was thickly coated with ice. "TOTE" SHOPS HOAXED. Rooeived July 20, 10 30 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 20. A telephone boy, who sent h message from Flemington on Saturday, altered the name of the Footsoray Steeplechase winner from Error to Bluejacket, and a . number of, the "tote" shops paid out beta on i*. The boy confessed that a mini formerly employed in the Postal Department induaed him to send the wrong name, premising £2O to do so. When he met the man to receive the money, he was told that somebody had made trouble, and he could not have the £20.,:. PROTEST AGAINST PIECE WORK. Received July 20, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, July 20. Over a hundred s"one-masons em-, ployed by the Matteas Company at Newtown have struok as a protest against the introduction of piece instead of day work. A "TWO-UP" PROSEOUTIQN. Received July 20, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Juty'2o. The magistrate ' has deoided, in connection with the "two-up" prosecution, that the military reserve is not a place under the Gambling Sup* oression Act. UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. Received July 20, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, July 20. Of 1,129 candidates who presented themselves at the university examinations, 845 passed. MILITARY CANTEENS. Reoeived July 20, 10.3»a,m. * MELBOURNE, July 20 The Representatives Bill, providing for the suppression of military canteens, has been read a third time. The Act comes into operation od October Ist. TO ENCOURAGE SETTLEMENT. Reoeived July 20, 10.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 30. In the Federal House of Representatives Mr Johnston moved that, in order to encourage settlement in the South Pacific, especially in the New Hebrides, a rebate on the produots of all British settlers entering the Commonwealth. On Mr Daakin's suggestion, the debate was adjourned until a reply has been reoeived from the Imperial authorities, to the representation made by the late Mr Sedtion and him regarding the New Hebrides.

PRESS MESSAGES. I Reoeived July 20, 10.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 20. The Federal Senate debated Mr Stanford Smith's motion to allow a limited number of press messages over the Paoifio cable free of oharge. Speakers generally condemned the existing press services. Mr Keating stated that the matter had been under consideration previously, and tbe Paoifio Board had refused to countenance the scheme. Some of the objections to it were, he said, insurmountable. After some debate, most of the speakers commenting favourably on the proposal, but recognising the difficulties, the motion was withdrawn. TRaMWAY EMPLOYEES' GRIEVANCES. Reoeived July 21,12.53 a.m. SYDNEY, July 20. Amongst the statements made by tbe disaffected tramway men was that the Westiughouse-Newell magnetic brake was unreliable. The Railway Commissioners appointed a board of experts, inoluding the leading tramway officials in other States and Professor Pollock, of the Sydney University Board, to make enquiries. After examining a large number of witnesses and testing the brake, the Board unanimously report entirely in favour of the brake, and declare it to be prompt and effioient in action and powerful for emergency stops. - '1 .. n.