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Feilding Star, 17 May 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[tt ILSOXaiO TKtKORAPH— OOPyitIOHTj [FBB PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] ANOTHER STKrK.B. ah Sidney, \fay If. All the copper mines in Cobar district are practically idle, owing to » strike of employees for higher wagfs and preference to Union itfs. - RECORD MINING PROFIT. Melbourne, May, 16. The Mount Lyell Company 'returns for the half-year show a record net profit of £264,935. 4. dividend of Is 3d and a bonus of 2s '.hi per share have been declared absorb mc: ££10.---000. AUSTRALIAN NAVY. (Reoeived May 17th, T.J i am.) -„ „ ,*. By dn °y» Way '6Mr Carruthers, interviewed on the Federal proposal for a separate navy, said he was not at all in hi your of it He considered the protection of iostralia consists in the iact that we are a dependency of the Empire, with the greatest naval force in the *.i >rid, and know that whatever is done We id part of the general scheme of the Imperial naval defence, -.ut we --pro pose to set that all aside and start on our own, contrary to rhe 'advice of those who had forgotten more than we had ever learnt. The whole thing was a sop to a section of the community that if not openly it is oovertly disloyal to English .-lpremaey. SCULLING CHAMP fONSI I IP. Sydney, May 17. ' George Towns has issued a rhal- ' lenge to row anyone on 'the Thames . for the championship of England, at ' £200 aside, provided anyone will meet - his brother Charlie on the Thames ] for the championship of the world. ' WHITE AUSTRALIA. t Brisbane, May 17. j Five hundred labourers, f#r work < on the sugar plantations, leave Eng- 'i land this month. t \