AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 839, 27 March 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

[by electric telegraph — copyright.] [pee press association.] BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE AWAKENS. (Received March 27, 9.50 a.m.) Sydney. March 27. Mr Wickes. British Board of Trade representative, met the Chamber of Commerce and urged on it the neoes- j sity of fostering British interests. His mission in Australia, he said, largely was to promote the exchange of the raw for the manufactured article. He was confident of a big expansion in trade between England and Australia. JOCKEY CLUB PRIZE MONEY. ijbe prize money provided by the Jockey Club for the 1909-10 season aggregates £41,760, showing an increase of nearly £4000. TO STUDY LABOUR LAWS. Mr Wunstock, a special labour commissioner, appointed by Cafiifor nia to study the labour laws in the principal countries of the world for the prevention of strikes, has arrived here, and is conducting inquiries. FIRE AT WHITECLIFF. A fire at WhiteclifEs destroyed a block of business premises while the inmates were asleep. There were several narrow escapes. GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. Melbourne, March 27 The Water Committee is completinfe a scheme for the irrigation of 6000 square miles in the Wimmera district, at a cost of £170,000. TRANSFER OF FEDERAL TERRIIOKx. The Federal Government intends to ask the Government of New South Wales for the transfer of a full €hou9and square miles of Federal terriAUSTRALIAN LOCAL Adelaide, March 26. Thirty-seven hotels in the metropolitan district have been closed as Ihe Tesult of the local option poll two years ago, since *ken tnere naß "i 66 ? much litigation in the matter, including an appeal to the Privy Council!. SHIPPING. M . __ Hobart, March 27. Sailed— Lauaerdalo, for New Zear land.