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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 3

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PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION, A BIG FIRE.

Sydney, May 17

Rosebank tannery, at Botany ,_ was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £5000. CARDINAL AiORAN'S AIEAIORY. The Hibernian Conference decided to start a movement to erect a monument to Cardinal Aloran. (Received Alay IS, 11.15 a.m.) GOVERNOR OF THE COATMON- . WEALTH BANK. Melbourne, Alay 18. Air Denston Aliller, Inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, has been appointed Governor of the Commonwealth Bank. NO NEED FOR ALIEN INHABIT- . ANTS. The party of Federal members have returned from their visit to the Northern Territory. Air Thomas states he is confident the territory can be populated with, white people. LITHGOW TRADE UNIONISTS. Sydney, Alay 18. AA meeting of Lithgow trade unionists protested against the proposal of a one-day strike, unless the imprisoned strikers are released. ASTRONOMY AND WEATHER. Alelbourne, May 18. Air Hunt, the meteorologist, declares that the study of seasonal forecasting, by means of astronomical conditions, has compelled modern meteorologists to disallow that any practical assistance is to be derived from these elements.