AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11916, 10 June 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. QUEENSLAND ASSEMBLY. BRISBANE, June 9. Tho debate of Mr Cripps's no-confidence motion was adjourned till today. BUILDERS IN CONFERENCE. The Builders' Conference passtd a resolution opposing State interference in private enterprise, also the day labour system. EMBEZZLEMENT. E. A. Hunt, manager of Reuters Agency at Brisbane, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £625 of tho Company's moneys. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTING. SYDNEY, June 9. Tlie Government* Commercial Agent in the East asks for quotations for two million railway sleepers. A CREW SAFE. Tho crew of the French barque Tourville are all safe. - VICTORIAN LABOUR PARTY. MELBOURNE, June 9. 'Mr Bromley, for health considerations, has resigned the leadership of the State Labour Party. Mr Prendergast has succeeded him. METHODIST CONFERENCE. The Methodist Conference resolved that, if practicable, before the union of the Presbyterian Churches is consummated, a scheme be devised for giving students for the ministry of the respective churches a united theological university training. A motion by the Rev. Lawry, of New Zealand, to allow laymen to take part in the final stationing of ministers, was remitted to the 1907 Conference. A VESSEL LAUNCHED. (Receivec? June 10th, 1 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jane 9. Tlie steamer Awaroa, for the Northern Union Company of New Zealand, was successfully launched at Balmain.