AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 320, 18 July 1907, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by vlbotbio thlegbaph— copyright.] [PBft PUSS ASSOCIATION.) COACH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Sydney, July 17. The mail coach to Bourke was caught in a thunderstorm and the mailman unyoked and sought shelter. On returning he found the coach completely destroyed and all the mails burned. JAPANESE AGGRESSION. (Received July 18, 8.34 a.m.) Sydney, July 18. Professor Brown, of New Zealand, in the course of a lecture at the University, declared that Australia had no need to fear Japanese aggression, as Japan had never adopted an aggressive policy. The Pacific would be the arena of history, because the largest unexploited labor quarry in the world existed on the coast of Asia. He advanced the theory that the difficulty regarding the development of tropical Australia would Be overcome by the evolution of a new race, which would be a colored race. REFRIGERATING SPACE. In the House of Representatives members strongly urged the importance of providing refrigerated space in connection with the new mail contract. The Postmaster-General announced that the State Governments had been asked to co-operate in securing refrigerated space. Their replies were awaited. A WAVE OF CRIMES. The Bill introduced into the State Parliament to amend the Crimes Bill, gives the police very stringent powers of dealing with suspects and others. The measure is the outcome of the recent wave of crime. SPORTING. The price of the New Zealand purchased hurdler, Bribery, is £600. The New Zealand horse Mahuta has been scratched for the Epsom Handicap and the Metropolitan. The Advance — Brown Spec colt has been eliminated from the A. J.C. Derby. AUSTRALIA'S CAPITAL. Melbourne, July 18. The Capital Site Bill has been introduced and names Dalgety as the proposed site. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. The Wireless Telegraphy Committee's report recommends nine stations on the Australian coast and New Guinea for wireless purposes, Sydney being placed first in importance. The conference sees no necessity for establishing communication with New Zealand, since it would be of use only in the remote contingency of the three existing cables being cut.