AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 270, 20 May 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[BY BLBOTBIO TBUSGBAPH — COPXBIGHt.] IPBB. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A BOATING FATALITY. May 19. A boat capsized crossing the bar at Inverloch and three ladies— Misses Bradley, Newman and Miller — were drowned. Four other occupants were rescued. THE CRICKET TROUBLE. (Received May 20th, 10.23 a.m.) Melbourne, May 20. Members of the Board of Cricket Control are hostile to the players' demand for a change in the constitution of the Board. They declare that if the players persist, the Board will cancel the visit of the English team. QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. Brisbane, May 20. Mr Bowman, Labor Leader, claims the elections are a triumph for the direct. Labor movement, considering the party went to the country divided. Labor holds the golden key to the position. Mr Philp, Leader of the Opposition, is disappointed withthe result. It will be impossible, in complication of parties, he says, for effective Government. . Corrected figures of the result are: —Ministerial 24, Opposition 28, Labor 20. ' LABORITES' VIEWS ON MR DEAKIN. (Received May 20th, 10.23 a.m.) Sydney, May 20. Mr McQowen discredits the cabled report of Mr Deakin's prophecy re the reverses of Labor in New South Wales and Queensland, and says that there is a cold-bloodedness about the thing which is foreign to all we know of Mr Deakin politically and personally. . "FUDGE." Melbourne, May 20. Mr Doakin'a prediction was received with astonishment in Labor ranks. Sir James Prendergast declared that it suggested to his mind that Mr Deakin found himself in the position of Baron Mun&ausen, who* when losing the confidence of the people of Africa, resorted to the expedient of importing shiploads of fudge. Mr Deakin was apparently following Jus austere example. _