AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CONSTRUCTION OF LOCOMOTIVES. ll'BKOa ASBnCIATtON.I (Received Juno 25, 10.26 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Tho Government liuh decided to construct some, if not nil, tho bixty locomotives requited for the railways, at tho Eveleigh shops. TO-DAY'S FOOTBALL MATCH. SYDNEY, This Day. The British football team is playing a return mutch ugainst, Now South Wales to-day. MR. COPELAND'S DEATH. i SYDNEY, This Day. Great regret is expressed at the death of Mr. Copcland, Agent-General for New South Wales. State Ministers and leaders in tho Federal House of Representatives paid eulogistic tributes to tho deceased gentleman. Lord Jersey will act temporarily as Agent-Gonerul. THE QUEENSLAND POLITICAL CRISIS. BRISBANE, This Day. The Premier wailed on tho Governor, and, it is rumoured, asked for a dissolution. Tho Premier dcclinos to disclose anything, stating that nothing will bo done before Monday. PEARLING SCHOONER CAPSIZES. BRISBANE, This Day. A pearling schooner capsized off Thursday island. A Jupario.se diver and a South Sea Islander were drowned. FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE. MELBOURNE, This Day. j The Federal Public Seirice Commissioners' classification scheme has been laid on tho table in the House of Representatives. It deals with about 14,000 officers, und provides for additions and salaries aggregating £11,000. ' NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. SYDNEY, This Day. Tho Hon. B. R. Wiso has decided not to contest the coming election. IMMIGRATION QUESTION. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr. Hughes, Federal Minister for External Affairs, states that the Governmenthad received no official information regaiding Sir nonico Tozer'B cabled statement with reference to Italian innniI grants. Ho added that he knew no rea- j son why tho policy of the Government, which was identical with that of the last I Government, should render immigration impossible. [At the Queensland annual dinner, hold tn London on Wednesday, Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-Genet ul for Queensland, reforred to the Labour position in Queensland. He said Italy's representatives had offered to fcupply nil unlimited number of immigrants suitable for work on Migar plantations, provided contracts ■were permitted for one year. When tho scheme was established tho contracts, he said, would probably be found unnecessary, but in face- of tho Commonwealth's policy it was impossiblo to proceed with such it scheme.] A UNION TROUBLE. * SYDNEY, 24th Juno. For failing to fulfil a promise to admit members to its first meeting as ordered by tho Arbitration Court on Monday (though members were admitted the following day), tho Wharf Labourers' Union has been oidered to pay the costs of the application recently before tho Court. Tenders are invitod by notice in another column for tho erection of a Piesbvterian Church at Brooklyn.