AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 20, 23 July 1903, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

• THE NAVAL AGREEMENT BILL. PROGRESS IN THE FEDERAL HOUSE. [press association.! MELBOURNE, 22nd July. In the Federal House of Representatives, the amendment by Mr. Watson, deader of the Labour Party, to the Naval Agreement Bill, that the Bill be read a wecond time six months hence, was negatived by 40 votes to 22. The second reading was then carried by 38 to 14. The Bill is now being considered in Committee. ANOTHER AMENDMENT NEGATIVED. (Received July 23, 11.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day An amendment to the Naval Agreement Bill in the Federal House to limit the operations of the fleet to Australasian waters was negatived. A TARIFF PREFERENCE BILL. MELBOURNE, 22nd July. Sir Edmund Barton, Federal Premier, announced in. the House of Representatives that the Government intends at an early date to introduce a Bill to provide tariff preference on goods received from New Guinea. QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT. MOTION OF WANT OF CONFIDENCE. BRISBANE, 22nd July. "In the Legislative Assembly, during, the debate on the Address-in-Reply, Mr. W. H. Browne, Leader of the Opposition, moved a vote of want of confidence. The Premier, Hon. R. Philp, in a short reply, said he considered the Government ¦possessed the confidence of the pople. The debate is proceeding. * THE LATE HON. J. T. TOOHEY. SYDNEY, This Day. The estate of the late Hon. J. T. Toohey, M.L.C., has been sworn at £275,000. A COMING QUEENSLAND LOAN. (Received July 23, 7.24 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd July. The Times says that a Queensland 3£ jper cent, loan, with a minimum of 97, is imminent. THE PRECIOUS METAL. RICH YIELDS AT NUGGETY GULLY (Received July 23, 9.4(> a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The half-yearly report of the Broken .Hill Proprietary mine shows net profits to amount to £57,660. Dividends absorbed £48,000, Further rich finds are reported at Nuggety Gully, near Tuena, about two hundred mil§s south-west of Sydney. Prospects have yielded up to five ounces a dish. A REPORT CONTRADICTED. (Received July 23, 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The naval authorities deny the statement that a collision between the Royal Arthur and the Mildura was narrowly averted during the jjaval manoeuvres. THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK. LAUNCESTON, This Day. . Another case of smallpox is reported. THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY. REPORT BY GENERAL BUTTON. (Received July 23, 10.18 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Major-General Sir E. T. H. Hutton, Commander of the Federal Forces, reporting on the Transcontinental Railway, says it would bo of unquestionable value from a military standpoint. The potential value of the goldfields and tho vast extent of unoccupied lands in Western Australia rendered that portion of the continent a most valuable place for foreign nations; but owing to the want of »n army of sufficient strength and proper equipment, the railway under present conditions would confer no advantage on Australia.