AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 293, 17 June 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ (By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright.) rPBB PBESS ASBOOXACION.] THE WEATHER. (Received June 17th, 10.8 a.m.) Sydney, June 17. Rain is general in the State. Three and a half inches were registered at Sydney. TIMBER STRIKE. Perth, June 17. In connection with the strike in the timber trade, the manager* of Milli) r's Karri Co., has received orders to withdraw all offers to the men who . were notified that they must return to work under the Arbitration Court award, or leave the company's ground. DAB ING BURGLARIES. Melbourne, June 17. Daring burglaries continue. The safe at Connelly and Sons, South Melbourne, was removed from the office to a building at tlie rear. The robbers were evidently disturbed, and failed to open it. A city solicitor, who received payment of £160, placed the money in his coat pocket. On reaching home he found that the pocket had been cut away and the money gone. DEATH OF A CRICKETER. Obituary— R. McLeod, the wellknown cricketer and member of the Crickot Club Committee. NEW HEBRIDES. (Received June 17th, 10.17 a.m.) Adelaide, June 17. Dr Fitchett, Solicitor-General of New Zealand, interviewed regarding the meeting of the Anglo-French New Hebrides Committee, said the machinery was put in satisfactory working order, and the meetings were merely to arrange the salaries and tenure of offioe of tiie Judges of the joint Court and generally tiie conduct of its business. He added that little importance attaches to the step taken by the Mother Country in connection with the nomination of the committee. Tt was the firat time on record that the Home Government had recognised the right of ft selfgoverning dependency to have a say in the proceedings by the nomination of British representatives.