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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 5

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Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 17, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Sailed. —H.M.S. cruiser Encounter, for Colombo, where she will be recommissioned. Mr Deakin has announced that the contract for the armored cruiser, which is to be the flagship of the Commonwealth Eleet, has been let to the John Brown Company of Glasgaw. It will be completed in two years. PERTH, This Day. Two well-known graziers in the Wyndham district have died under peculiar circumstances. John MacKenzie shot himself drawing a revolver from a saddlebag. Sam Miggleston was found unconscious on a bush track and succumbed. (Received March 17, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Marshall, a workingman at Lithgow, has come in for a windfall. His uncle, late senior member of Marshall, Stewart Company, shipbuilders, of Glasgow, has made him chief beneficiary of property valued at £40,000. The Rifle Association offers £5300 as prize money for the next meeting, whereof £IOOO, besides trophies, is set aside for the King's Prize. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Australian Natives' Association has adopted a resolution in favor of the Government's Defence Policy, but against borrowing money to carry out the proposals, and also recommending the establishment of an Australian Navy League. The Federal Arbitration Court has commenced the hearing of the Enginodrivcrs' and Firemen's Association case, which involves the whole conditions of employment on land engines. • BRISBANE, This Day. Speaking at Maryborough, Mr Fisher prophesied he would soon be leading a Labor Ministry. Sailed. —Dredge, Maui.