AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 319, 17 July 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

, [BY H-SOTBIO TBLBOBAPH— OOPYBIGHT.] (I__. PBBSS ASSOOU-IOH.) THE COAL LUMPERS. Sydney, uly 16. Sir Henry CampbeU-annerman deStevedores' Association failing to see the utility of conferring further, declined the coal lumpers request for another conference. I (Received July 17, 10.8 a.m.) Sydney, July 17. . Developments in connection with . the coal lumpers' trouble are expec- ! ted shortly) and are awaited with in- , torest. It is rumored 1 that an important move on the strikers' behalf is ' not unlikely. SAFE BURGLARY. Adelaide, July 17. Burglars removed a safe weiring . SOOlbs from Davis's flourmiH. They blew it open and secured £3 (1). MR. DEAKIN ILL. Melbourne, July 17. The .doctor has advised Mr Deakin . that it is absolutely necessary for him to cease work for at least a month. CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY. At the Federal Government House to-day, ex-railway fireman Pearce was presented with the Albert medal of the first-class tor conspicuous bravery in crawling through boiling watersteam and rescuing a driver of a derailed engine in Newcastle, in December, 1905. FEDERAL POLITICS. BOUNTIES' BILL. The House read the Quarantine Bill a second time. The Bounties Bill was introduced ; it provides for a total expenditure of £530,000, spread over 15 years, bounties being payable to producers only, and employment of white labor is required. The articles for which bounties will be paid are—Cotton, flax, hemp, mohair, dried fruits, coffee, tobacco, rubber, rice, preserved fish, combed wool, oil, linseed, sunflower seed, peanuts, olives, ana \ palm fruit.