AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 21 October 1908, Page 8

AUSTRALI AN NEWS

. - EPHKBB ABBQOlfflMj (Received October 21) 1&30 a.-ifi.) SYDNEY, Ottwber 21. Two divers named Rogers and May intend to make an effort shortly to recover the remainder of the Elingamite's gold. MELBOURNE, October S&. The Women's Suffrage Bill was. read a second time in the State Assembly by 45 to 8. Mr Dealiin, replying ta Mr Reid's attack on the Governmv&t's expendi T ture, said that so far from being extravagant he had beea rigorously economical. The sums returned to the States had gone up in gratifying fashion, but t*he States were far from satisfied on the question of Commonwealth borrowing. It was essential that some understanding should be arrived at between the Commonwealth and the States, and it would be with the utmost reluctance that he would see the Commonwealth embark on a borrowing policy. The Government was carrying out a policy which the people of Australia were 'more and more coming to appreciate/ and were carrying it out with the assistance of the Labor party, with whom its relations were entirely in accord. The Labor party held a caucus last evening,' and decided to support the Government.

About .200 unemployed invaded the vestibule and attempted to enter the galleries of the House. The police were reinforced, and ultimately ejected the men from' the building.