AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1477, 27 April 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

BY ELECTBIO TELEGBAPH—COPYBIGHT

(PER PBESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received Aoril 27, 10.15 a.m.) LICENSED VICTUALLERS. Sydney, April 27. The Licensed Victuallers' Conference carried a motion in favour of the abolition of local option and the ■substitution of licenses reduction boards. , „ OUT OF QUARANTINE. The Mooltan has been released from quarantine for smallpox. Two passengers who evadeci vaccination have to remain in quarantine. PAY FOR CIVIL SERVANTS. The Government has decided to pay the niinimum £110 to all adult members of the Civil Service. Unlike the Federal service, there will be no three years' stipulation. A SUCCESSFUL NEW ZEALANDER. Mr W. E. Long, of Onehunga, New Zealand, has received a certificate from the. Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the agricultural, dairy, and orchard section. TURNED DOWN.

The wharf labourers turned down a conciliatory suggestion by ActingPremier Hughes regarding the handling of cement in bags. The Hon. A. C. Carmichael, Act-ing-Treasurer, afterwards declared that the Government had one duty to perform—ihat is to see, where a body of men refuse certain work, they are not to prevent others doing it.