AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 228, 4 October 1901, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh Sydney, Oct. 8. . H.M.S. Bingarooma sails for New Zea land on Saturday to relieve H.M.S. Mil ' dura. Arrangements have been made fo granting a passage to six stranded New Zealand soldiers at the expense of the Nev Zealand Government. , Brisbane, Oct. 8. The revenne for the quarter has decreasd .£17,000 compared with the corresponding last quarter. Mr Wragge has been successful in dispersing the clouds by firing the Stigor vortex guns. The Courier expresses similar views to the Premier's on the Pacific Islanders Bill. Melbourne, Oct. 8. The Anglican Assembly has adopted a Bill creating three new dioceses at Bendigo, Gippsland, and Beachworth. Mr Barton, in moving the second reading of the Pacific Island Laborers Bill, referred to the national importance of the sugar industry. He said there were over 108,000 acres under cane in Queensland. The value of the sugar exported from that State in the last eight years was nine million pounds. The number of whites employed in the industry in the State was 5700, and Kanakas over 8700. The total value of the industry to Queensland in every phase was about six millions. Ho claimed that the whole trend of legislation in Quesusland has been that the employment of Kanakas was only a temporary expedient. All the reponsible public men there had confessed the undesirability of the perpetuation of colored labor, and had agreed that the Kanaka was not essential to the success of sugar-growing. He added that the traffic was inherently bad, and must be ended. The Government scheme would accomplish this without injuriously affecting the industry. The policy of the Government in regard to the Kanakas and the tariff was so intimately interwoven that the two questions must be taken together. The tariff would show that it was to the interest of the planters to substitute white for black labor as early as possible. This is taken to indicate that the growers will be compensated for the loss of Kanakas by heavy import duties. The debate was adjourned until Tuesday noxt.