AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 17 March 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! ROBINS EXECUTED. Adelaide, March 83. Robins was executed for the murder of Ovensworth on December 24. The act was the reuslf of jealousy. The death" or Robins was instantaneous. (Received Alarch 17, 9.50 a.m.) PRIZES FOR RIFLEMEN.' Sydney, Alarch 17. The Rifle Association offers' £5330 in prize-money at the next meeting. Of this, £1000 —besides trophieshas been set aside for the King's Prize. H.AT.S. ENCOUNTER. The cruiser Encounter has sailed for Colombo, where she will be recomniissioned. THE A.N.A.'S POLICY. Melbourne, Alarch 17. The Australian Natives' Association'has adopted a resolution in favour of the Government's defence policy, but against borrowing money to carry out the proposal, and also recommending the establishment of an Australian Navy League. ENGINE WORKERS' CASE. Melbourne, Alarch 17. Tho Federal Arbitration Court has commenced the hearing of the En-gine-drivers' and Firemen's Associar tion case, which involves tlie wbole of the conditions of employment on land engines. ■ THE COAL STRIKE. Although the strike is over, jt is not likely that full supplies of coal will be available for some- weeks. During the strike, interstate companies had over fifty steam ers laid up. Thirty of these are still idle. Docking and getting them in running order will mean a further large outlay. The total losses of the inter-state and Union S.S. Companies over the .strike are estimated at £200,000, STRANGE DEATHS. Pert, Marc 17. JTwo well-known graziers in the Wyndham district died under peculiar circumstances. Air John AleKenaie shot himself by drawing a revolver from his saddlebag, and Air Sam Alurralstone was found unconscious on a bush track, afterwards dying. LEADER OF LABOURITES. Brisbane, March 17. • Speaking at Mary-borough, Afr Andrew Fisher, ex-Premier, prophieised that he would' soon be leading another Labour Ministry in the Federal Parliament. BRISBANE SHIPPING. Sailed—The dredge Maui, for New Zealand.