AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 227, 25 September 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] (Received Sept. 25, 10 a.m.) NEW GUINEA.

BRISBANE, Sept. 25,

Archbishop Donaldson has returned; from New Guinea. He pays a high' tribute to the work done by the Gov-' eminent during the past ten years.: Cannibalism, he states^ has practically, ceased, and the natives are ashamed; of the practice. He does not think the country suitable for white settlement. : GOLF. MELBOURNE, Sept, .25. At the Australian golf championship meeting, Victoria proved the champion State. CHURCH FEDERATION. ADELAIDE, Sept, 25. The Presbyterian Federal Assembly dealt with the .report on the federation of the Churches, on the basis of doctrine agreed to by the committees of the Congregational, Methodist and i Presbyterian churches, and sent to the? State* .Assemblies. ; NEW SOUTH WALES "PAYS UP."

SYDNEY, Sept, 25

The State Government has paid1 .under protest 'between £7000 and' £8000 duty on wire-netting imported lor the farmers.