It is now definitely settled that a celotex factory is to be erected in one of the sugar districts of Queensland at a cost of £250,000. There is only one factory of the world, and that is the Mississippi.
This wi started a year or more ago and strange to relate was highly sueceséful and profitable from the outset. Celotex the trade name given to a thin board, something like what is known is the fibrous part of the s cane remaining over after juices have been pressed out, It is claimed by the Celotex people that the first material shipped to Japan, after the quake, was one roillion feet of celotex.' It is practically ud" makes excellent 'a low temperature has {ete maintained, 'The' mepese conveyed to the factory in bales, and then pulped and treated very much the same as ordinary timber used for making paper pulp. The i sufficiently profitable to make the owners think now being snd the output of magass is about 30,000 tons a year, which would of course make an immense amount of the lumber. If the whole of it could be worked up many thousands of pounds would go into the pockets of the cane producers, while an additional income will soon be obtained by the distillation of the molasses, now wasted, which would yield about 4,000,000 gallaes of power alcohol. It is possible that would be used as a fuel to the place of the magass, which at present chiefly supplies the sugar will furnaces. Throughout the sugar districts along the Queensland eastern coast the regular monsoonal rains have fallen, and such districts as Bundaberg Mackay, which for two years have had dry weather and "poor crops, at last have cheerful prospects to raise the drooping hearts of the growers.
The Hanging Cure.
The Victorian State government: adhered to its determination despite the fiercest of attacks in a section of the press, and the protests of the Trades and Labour Council, and hanged Angus Murray for murder. The case was very simple. A bank manager was making one of his periodical visits to the head office carrying a bag or suit-ease in which was a quantity of notes. On the ramp of the suburban station man met him and demanded the bag. The banker started to draw his revolver when his assailant promptly shot him full in the chest, grabbed the bag and made off up the ramp and to.a waiting motor car. The alarm was quickly raised:
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