AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 296, 20 June 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

. {By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright.) [PAB, FBKBS AiSOOIATIO.*.] MR DEAKIN. (Received June 20th, 9.2 a.m.) Perth, June 20. Mr Deakin, at a reception, referred to the torrent of hospitality wherewith delegates were inundated in England — tbere was too much hospitality. He outlined the strenuous fight to have" the Imperial Conference opened to the Press. People had been obliged to speak from information, obtained from cables. This was obtained from very uncertain information supplied in London. It was expected the full report would reach Australia about July sth. There were a good many things which had uot yet -been communicated* to the people, and they would find some sur- | piises in the report. The Congress has been a triple success; firstly, because of the extraordinary interest and expectation with which it was awaited; secondly, because of the actual results embodied in the resolutions. Of course, they were not those for which they would have hoped, but those which, for the most part, they had expected. Perhaps the greatest success of all was one from the Conference, and yet outside^ the_ Conference — that every Australian in London rallied to support them in what they were doing, that the representatives of ether dominions applauded and encouraged them to go on, and that the British people, by resolutions and other indications of sympathy, congratulated them and urged them forward. When the members of the Conference spoke straight, the people of the Mother Country, apart from and above local politics, supported them at citizens of an Empire jjnited by many mutual ties, and looking forward to one high destiny. Mr Deakin, interviewed in leference to his speech at De Keyser's Hotel, London, en May 12th, which gave rise to so much condemnation m Labour circles iv Australia, said he was not asked, and said nothing about the Federal Labour Party. His remarks about, the Labour Party being in deep water referred to Queensland alone, and were founded on the latest cabled information from Australia. The reporters were evidently not familiar either with the distinction between the several States, or between the States and the Commonwealth, consequently they made a corfusion of his remarks. It was rather amusing to find himself challenged for repeating statements in reference to the State Labour Party, which were made on the faith of correspondents in Australia. NAVIGATION CONFERENCE. Sir Wm. Lyne outlined the doings of the Navigation Conference. He hsd, he said, been struck by the fact bow little the people of England knew Stout Australia, and he urged the rooessity .of better advertising. SIR WM. LYNE ON THE MAIL CONTRACT. Sir Wm. Lyne, in sn interview on the mail contract, said that when Mr Bent's offer was made in London, be told the members of the Syndicate it was simply impossible to admit the right of one State to receive preference over another. That position he still adhered to. As to Victoria's latest offer, Sir Wm. Lyne declared the contract was . a Federal matter, and what the State says it is willing to do may be a different thing. > ALBANI. Sydney. June 2. Madame Albani has concluded a short and highly successful . season iv the Town. Hall. NEW CALEDONIA. Melbourne, Jane 20. Sir John Forrest declares the story that the Comnpnwealth had an agent in France trying to arrange for the purchase of New Caledonia is ridiculous. A GOLDEN CEMErERY: The discovery of a 19inch wide reef of gold-bearing stone in the grave of sn old cemetery at Ballarat North, caused a rush. The country has been pegged out for a mile round the cemetery. DEATH SExVTENCE COMMUTED. ' Adelaide, June 20. The capital sentences on the Aboritines Combit and Donah, for the murer of Bradshaw and party at Port Keats last year, have been commuted to life imprisonment.