AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1144, 29 March 1910, Page 2

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THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA

(Received March 29, 8.30 a.m.) Melbourne, March 29. Addressing the Young Men's Catholic Society Archbishop Carr appealed to Irishmen and the sons of Irishmen to shoulder their responsibilities in the defence of Australia.. He declared that they should imitate the patriotic action of 'Scottish regiments. It all very well, lie said, for 'Australians when no danger was apprehended and the power of Great Britain was unchallenged, to feel secure, but if the day came when tEe army and navy of Great Britain were challenged, Australians would be seriously menaced. If the young men did.not prepare for such an eventuality, they were neglecting their duty to their country. WONDERFUL WIRELESS. Sydney, March 28. Messages are still being received over a great distance at Pike's wireless station. His apparatus has been tested by a naval wireless expert, with satisfactory results. Pike is anxious for the Federal Government Ito put his appliances to a practical test and equip a series of stations. If hiis overtures to the Government are rejected he proposes to take the apparatus to America.

FOSTER FRASER FROZEN. Melbourne, March 28. The Premier considers that ■Mr Foster Eraser's comments on flaccidity in Australians is simple nonsense.. On the average, the Australian workman will do as much in eight hours as the British workman in nine or ton hours.

ihe Rev. E. Sugden, Master of Queens College, says he has no patience with, a peripatetic journalist; like Mr Fraser, who spends a few woelv.s here, and from the pinnacle, ot his superior detachment presumes; to criticise. Mr Fras&r's libels on. youth are unjustifiable. When a man makes the statement that §ydney stands for pleasure, Melbourne for business, and Adelaide for culture a ridiculous statement which has nothing to recommend it except its epigrammatic form—he shows a superficiality which should not be taken seriously. Dr. Lepper Waldron, of 'Trinity College, thinks there is something in Mr Fraser's strictures. The ambitious student of Melbourne University does not. work as hard as his brothers in Home Universities Austra.la.il students seem to be lacking- a spirit of enthusiasm for national affairs.