AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

WESTRALIAN MINISTRY. .... (Received 9.57 a.m.) PERTH, this day. All the Ministers except Mr. Drew have w*a returned unopposed. , • BRISBANE ELECTIONS. (Received 9.57 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. Eighteen members have been returned jSoppoaed, including eleven Labour canoaatea. THE BUTTER COMMISSION. MELBOURNE, August 19. At the Butter Commission Mr. Scar- *". formerly inspector of grain for the Agricultural Department, gave evidence ™*t in 1900 he saw the Government s * am P being used to stamp butter-boxes at Bartruin &. Sons' establishment. He a w the same thing in 1901. In both <*ses it was too early in the morning for ■* butter expert to vLsit the premises. c Government stamp had previously fcysteriously disappeared. He did not "Port the matter from fc.ir of dismissal, that h- was subsequently dis"•ssed for reporting v man for robbing we Imperial Uovcnimcnt' to the extent of * 18 a0. He also alleged that lie reported »Mr. Taverner thul lie had been asked, ™ l had refused, in allow the shipment without weighing, and that Mr. * aT erner had told him lie ought to be "named of himself, and ordered him out M the office. THE FEDERAL MINISTRY. SYDNEY, August 19. ifv"' Watson - says he U confident that «£"• Reid had moved a direct want-of-motion ii would hay.. been dejteo. Consequently he cannot see how rhv ' S ''^ e '. v tv command a majo- ■ on general questions, which he canttL a I° id for lou -- Mr ' Vat - son is ex " sorry that he was not granted a ■Ration, and is confident that he would .J e Won ten seats. He would then have a working majority. V CABLE BREVITIES. case of plague is reported in