AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

THE SHEARERS' DISPUTE.

CBeeeived 9.57 a,m.)

MELBOURNE, this day. The Conference between the pastoralists and the Workers' Union has been postponed owing to the registration of the -union under the Arbitration Act, the pastoraEsts fearing that a dispute may be created which may involve other States. The Workers' Union has- offered to give an agreement- for a term of years. The pastoralists will not be involved in the Arbitration Court. FEARED SMALLPOX AT HOBART. HOBART, this day. The suspected case of smallpox is in the hospiialYETEKAN POLITICIAN'S DEATH. (Received 11 ajn.) HOBART, this day. The death is. announced of Sir Adye Douglas, the Tasmanian politician, aged 9L [Sir Adye Douglas, whose father was an army officer, was born at Thorpe, near Norwich, in ISIS, entered the legal profession, and at 23 emigrated to Tasmania, where he was admitted to the local bar, but preferred to pursue a pastoral life in the then young settlement of Victoria. In 1842, having returned to Tasmania, he resinned the practice of the law, and quickly achieved a leading position. He also became a prominent member of the Anti-Transportation Associa- . tion, and, 1556, member for Launceston in the old. Legislative Council. He helped greatly towards the liberalizing of the' basis of the Tasmanian Constitution, and was chiefly instrumental, after a visit to England, in introducing the railway system. In. August, 1884, he Premier and Chief Secretary of the Colony, resigning in 1886, when he became AgentGeneral. He received a knighthood in 1982. .Sir.Adye Douglas was_a strong adrocate of Tasmania's federating with .Australia.! ■:■- -..'■■' H .- '.■■/■■ \