CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 294, 18 June 1907, Page 3

CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

♦ IBy Electrio Telegraph— Copyright.) IFBB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.] OUR PREMIER. Melbourne, June 17. Sir Joseph Ward and family havo arrived. Speaking at a lunch given hi his honour hy the Acting-Prime iVinister tSir John Forrest), Sir Jostuh eulogised Mr Deakin's work at the Colonial Conference. NEW CALEDONIA. (Received June 18th, 8.39 a.m.) Sydney, June 18. Noumea files publish a circumstantial statement that the agent of the Commonwealth was in Paris some time ago, trying to purchase New Caledonia for sixty million pound 3. The Noumea correspondent states that the gunboat Zeedee and the cruiser Catin *t have left Noumea for Tahiti. The object of the visit may b«i in connection with the forthcoming national fete, but it is coincident with a state of affairs that suggests a more, grave leason. Commenting on the reported attempt to purchase New Caledonia, the Noumean newspaper Bulletin dv Commerce declares that in view of the abandonment and contempt for their rights ,the New Caledonians arc not j deceived, and only know that the dcclaiation that New Caledonia and Tahiti are for exchange for money is approved by some members of the French Ministry and Parliament. A Noumean correspondent says that according to reports which have reached Noumea, the population of Tahiti is in a state bordering on anarchy,_as a result of the recent heavy increase in taxation, which is owing to acute financial depression it is unable to n«t«t. BOXING. (Received June 18th, 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, June 18. In the round of the Light-weight Boxing Championship, Marks, a New Zealander, cleverly defeated Lane, of Sydney, after a willing set to. FOOTBALL. The papers approve of the proposal for keeping the football team together after its return from Queensland, to give them an opportunity of securing the combination which is so necessary when opposed to the New Zealanders, and generally improve their condition. WHEAT HARVEST Adelaide, June 18. An official estimate of 'the wheat liarvest is as . f0110w5:— 1,681,982 acres cultivated, which yielded/17,---145,7- bushels, a decrease of 2998 compared with last year. MAIL SYNDICATE. Melbourne, June 18. The agent of the Mail Syndicate has received notice to produce a bond for an extra £25,000, and declares .there is no legal obligation to comply with the demand; but it will be forthcoming*. Melbourne, June 18. Complications have arisen between the Federal fend Vicortian Govern menta over the proposal for guaranteeing debentures. The Acting-State the Federal and Victorian GovernGovernment has dealt entirely with Sir John Forrest in the matter, while Sir John Forrest declares it is a mat- . ter between the State and the Syndicate's agent. In eousequeno«} of this difficulty cropping up, the Acting-Premier was rot able yesterday to complete the diaft of agreement between Victoria and the Syndicate. Mr Moore, Premier of Western Australia, declares that Victoria's action in the mail contract has entirely altered the position. He does not know what course his Government will take. ' ♦ PINK UN. It is reported that D. Price has sold Pink 'Un to. a Sydney buyer. OBITUABY. Obituary — Doctor Robert Lamb, late of the New Hebrides.