VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1906, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

[BY ELECTKIO TELEGRAPH —COPVRIGHI J HOME RULE. SYDNEY, This Day.—A largo meeting in the Town Hall last night, held under the auspices of the Orange bodies, adopted a petition to the King, declaring that the Home Rule resolutions recently adopted in the Federal Parliament did not represent the opinion of tho people of Australia. Mr Reid was the principal speaker at tho meeting. , THE CRICKET ROW. SYDNEY, This Day.—The members of the Cricket Club have resolved to support the Association in its firm stand. NATIONALISATION. BRISBANE, This Day.—Tho Employers Conference carried a resolution denouncing the nationalisation of monopolies. EXTERMINATING BUNNY. ADELAIDE, This Day.—The Government strongly protests against Dr. Danysz rabbit poisoning experiments. AUSTRALIAN SPIRITS. Tho Tariff Commission's progress report on distillation, states that there has boon nn immense increase in the production of spirits from molasses in New South Wales and Queensland. Tho Australian distilleries are at a great disadvantage in competing with the imported spirits ow j„g to'the higher cost of labor and materials of production, and also owinc to the local prejudice against Australian productions. It is recomnienfled in order to equalise the conditions , nai (Here should he a substantial difference in the duly on unpolled nun local spirits.