AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 528, 23 March 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

rBY BLEOTMC TELEGRAPH-CO* I«K»HT.) |PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! TRESIDDER OUT OF IT. Sydney, March 22-. Tresidder , has retired from bcullingand handed over the Australian championship to Thorougbgood. [This action is not unexpected, as Tresidder gave an of it after he was defeated by Webb tor the world's championship.] QUEENSLAND POLITICS. (Received March 23, 10.4 am) £ Brisbane, March 23. Mr DaVe Bowman, Leader of the Queensland Labour Party, said that in the past many useful measures had been thrown out by the Legislative Council, but they would now bo passed by both houses. The Premier (Mr Kidston) will have the backing of the Labour Party, seeing that this promise is to be carried out. SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. (Received March 23, 10.12 a.m.) Brisbane, March 23. Mr T. W. Rapley, of Wellington, a passenger by the Aorangi,. states that while he was in America, he learned from Senator MacLaughlin that there was a disposition on the part of the United States Senate to subsidise a twenty-knots line of steamers between Ban Francisco and Australia, NEW IDEA FOR THRIFT. Adelaide, March 23. With a view to inducing people to save their pennies, the Savings Bank is providing home savings bank boxes, capable of holding several pounds ot coppers. The box is locked, and the key is retained by tho bank till the box is returned.