AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 86, 13 April 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tpkess association.] AN UNFG&ITUNATE POSITION.' ,

(Received .April 13, 10.50 a.m.) i, MELBOURNE, April 12. . Mr HavekKik-- Wilson's financial'1 -^troubles have .awakened sympathy in' (labour circles. A proposal is on foot: -to raise a subsoription for him. ' The I difficulties occurred through Mr Wil-i json's criticism of the Merchant fihip-ji i£ing Bill. The .an^ut required is said \ to be £700. [

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE. ! ' •-■■.■• SYDNEY, April 13. i ' . iThe coaling of the Orient steamer; iss with .free labour. ■ ■ '' THE PLAGUE) : ) ■ SYDNEY, April 13. A city clerk has ibeen attacked by plague.ALLIGED MALPRACTICE: SYDNEY, April 13.; 41te* hearing explanations,', the Jockey Club exonerated all parties fzom .a&y suspicion of malpractice in ! jConnedtion with Peru's ginning at the accent-meeting. . ■ THE FEDERATION. MELBOURNE, April 13.' Sir John Forrest, who has returned from a vwt-sit to Sydney, estates that F<ederati.on was not intensely popular pmohg'tibe people he raised with, but there was ; not any desire *to hredk away. He thought that if they got rid of- the capital question a»d as Federation grew older, everything should go along alright. TATTERSALL'S AGENTS. MELBOURNE, April 13. Schultz, manager of the TasmaniaK Parcels Express Agency, has been fined j £10, while £260 found on tfe premises was ordered to be forfeited. THE BROWN HILL GOLD CASE. PERTH, April 13. David Pamell, the owner of sereral mining leases at Brown Hill, who was charged with having i n his possession gold unlawfully obtained, has been acT?f' 00 ? was stated tliat si*™ Aotober 23rd last the accused had sold .£14,000 sterling worth of gold to the jb&nfc.

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