AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8086, 8 September 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Per Press Association.) (Beceived Sept. 8, at 9.57 ajn.)

SYDNEY. This day. T. D. Hay, formerly secretary of the Australian Institute of Marine Engineers,''was awarded £1500 damages against the Society for libel." A stay of proceedings was ordered : .

MELBOURNE, This Day. ; A meeting of farmers attending the Royal Show protested against further taxation of agricultural machinery. BRISBANE, This Day. As a result of the Dutch Government offering facilities for pearling at Aru island, two additional schooners, 34 luggers and 150 men have left Torres straits for Aru.

HOBART, This day. The Assembly has approved of the reduction of members to 30.

PERTH, This Day. H.I. Biake's wiirshows his personalestate to be valued at i-248, and the real estate at nil; The insurance policies, totalling 37,000, are not admitted. His liabilities We JE5,300.

(Received September 8, at 9.56 a.m.) SYDNEY, This day. A stormy passage was experienced by the Papanui on the run across. , / ;The Herald- protests against the pro r posed increase in,' the naval subsidy and says : —" If we spend on the maintenance of an Imperial squadron in our waters all- the -money a small community grappling with a great problem can spare for defence, we are bound to lose our healthy spirit of self-reliance." The paper hopes the House'will emphatically oppose attempts from whatever quarter to exploit Australian loyalty and continues :—"We may be unprofitable servants, but we are doing what we can in discharging our obligations to the Imperial ' IN ravy and Empire in proportion to our capacity. It is not fair to require more. This new restless spirit ■of the Imperial agent, bent on extracting more subsidy and engaging us in new and indefinite imperial commitments is to be condemned." ' .