AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 118, 17 May 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PEBSS ASSOOIAMON.] VISITORS FROM AMERICA. ((Received May 17, 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. May 16. Forty A.merican cadets will leave San Francisco on Friday on a tour of Australia. They will call at Auck:land.on .June 14th.

ALL DROWNED. MELBOURNE, May 16. ' The; discovery of the body of one of the members'of the yacht Lilian's crew of fiyej which have been missing since April.2sth, confirms the worst ; fears. OBITUARY. . .--. ■■■ s SYDNEY, May 17. . Montagu Scott, the well-known animal painter, is dead.

.NO COALITION. SYDNEY, May 17. It :is understood that the negotiations .for Jrhei fusion of the Deakinand Cook parties practically failed.

GOOD RAIN. ,' SYDNEY/May 17. Useful Train (has /fallen in all j>arts of the State excepting the coastal district, where it,was, light. Up to an inch fell inthe Riverina. ; , OUR LABOUR ANa) ITS LAWS.

.SYDNEY, May 17. Professor Manes, of Berlin University, has arrived .on a, commission to investigate the ilabour problem and industrial • legislation of Australia and New Zealand. THE JdHNINfi TROUBLE. .SYDNEY/ May 17. It is reported that there is a growing feeling .among the :miners at the Barrier in favour v of ending the ' troiihle. An important decision is likely to fee reached on Tuesday.

A LABOUR REVERSE. ADELAIDE, May 17. The by-election ifor tne .Central District for the Legislative Council resulted in. the return of Mr Bruce, an anti-Labour candidate. The district for the previous three years -elected a Labour member.

STOPPING "TATT'S" TICKETS. HQBART, JMay 17. A long list of persons to whom postal articles are not to be delivered has been published. It includes the trustees of the late: George Adams's will and the Commercial Travellers* Club. The latter, however, does not apply to all the members.

AN APPEAL FOR PREFERENCE

MELBOURNE, May 17. , Mr Ross, the Canadian trade representative, interviewed Mr Tudor, Federal Minister for Customs, and asked him to re-open, the question of preferential trade •between ; Australia and Canada. Mr Tudor stated that he would be glad to consider concrete proposals, and while fairly safeguarding Australian trade would be happy if an arrangement could be made to the advantage of both countries.