AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 6485, 2 February 1905, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

■ Received Feb. 2, 10.20 a.m.

Australian Labour Unions at War. ,

Melbourne, Feb. 2 ; ; ; The first application for registration under the Federal Arbitration Act, which haa just come into effective operation, was from the Machine Shearers' Union, almost simultaneously with the protest against their registration received from an Australian Workers' Union which claims it can. embrace all those engaged in, the shearing industry,! It is understood 1 the two-'.bodies intend to fight this long standing trouble'„' to an end. .

Home for Consumptives.

The State Government establishes a home for consumptives at Broad Meadow.

The Chrietian Israelites,

86 Christian Israelites have left to join the main body at Michigan. ■■

Received Feb. 2. 9.36. a.m,

N.S.W. Progress.

STDNET,.Feb. 2 The Premier claims that the State ac-, counts for the first seven months of the financial year show a comparative improvement of £876,000 on last year. Out of 3,700,000 acies of Crown lands available for selection, 3,303,000 were selected. The number of sheep in the State at the end of last year was 32,466,000, an increase cf nearly four million, cattle 1,802,000, an inorease of 116,000, while horses reveal a considerable deciease. ;,-■■,

Tasmanian Troopers' Memorial;

Hoe'abt, Feb. 2 .. The Governor unveiled the National memorial to the soldiers who fell in the Transvaal. '

. *f Modern. Pirates,"

Brisbane, Feb. 2 Senator Riggs in a speech characterised .;• the English Mail Companies making a demand for double the old subsidy as "modern pirates," without the Black flag: :;.