AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4015, 15 June 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) {By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) SOME GENERAL ITEMS. Sydney, June 14. Heavy falls of ran axe still record- 1 ed in the western districts. It is noiv stated that the drought has definitely broken up. The wheat position is serious. Practically all the mille are closed. The Government is again seeking assistance from Victoria. The Labour Conference passed a resolution expressing hostility to Imperial federation, and objecting to Lord Milner receiving a Queensland deputation opposed to Queensland legislation, as it challenges the underlying principle of Australia's safegoverning powers. THE PRINCE'S SEND-OFF. Melbourne, June 14. - Despite the early morning departure- of the Prince,-he ivas iarewelled by crowds, thronging the piers and foreshores of Port Melbourne. The Renown, with her long row of lighted portholes, presented a picturesque spectacle moving doivn Hobson's Bay in a sligfikiog and. rain, Avhich was experienced at first, but ideal conditions prevailed up the coasi. THE GAS STRIKE. The Premier, in appealing to the-, public, intimated that the gas strike: would be fought to an end. No section would be permitted to dislocate the essential services. £I,SW,UW worth -Of- frozen meat is exposed to destruction owing to the withdrawal, of electricity for refrigerating purposes. THE HAVRE IN PORT. Newcastle/June 14 The steamer Havre arrived on Saturday night and entered port at daybreak. Both the tug a nd tow were greeted by tlie other steamers. The Havre's masts ivere stripped of the derricks, which' were Utilised as firewood to keep the wireless dynamo going. Captain Rule related that he - had .an anxious time since lcavipg Dunedin. The ship encountered_teinpestuous weather. At times the Havre threatened to, turn .turtle..