AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 271, 21 May 1907, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Elbctbio Tbxbqbaph— Copyright! [PEB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] N.S.W. LAND SCANDALS. Sydney, May 20. Justice Owen has presented the final report of the Land Scandals Commission. It discloses no new feature, but considers that after the lurid light the Commission threw on the acts of certain land agents and the way their applications were dealt with no practt3al good can result from prolonging the Commission, whioh has lasted a little over two years. QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. Brisbane, May 20. Mr Philp declared that there is more likelihood that Mr Kingston will come to an understanding with Labor than with his party. Arrangement, however, will be so difficult to formulate and so likely to terminate absolutely that he predicts another election within twelve months. SHIPPING. Sydney, May 20. Arrived — Kongsbyrd, from Kaipara. Melbourne, May 20: Arrived — Indradevi, from New York. Hobart, May 20. Arrived — Waiwera, from London, and sailed for Wellington at five this afternoon. Eighteen landed and ninety-eight proceeded.