AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9168, 17 March 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(By Electric Telegbath—Copjright.) (Per Press Association.) Received March 17. 9.5 a.m. SYDNEY, March 17. Sailed. —The cruiser Encounter for Colombo, where she recommissions. Mr Deakin announced that the contract for the armoured cruiser which is to be the flagship of the Commonwealth Fleet has been let to John Brown and Co.. Glasgow. It will bo completed in two years. MELBOURNE, March 17. Though the strike is over it is unlikely that full supplies of coal will be available for some weeks. During the strike the interested companies had over fifty steamers laid up, and thirty of these are still idle. Docking and getting them into running order will mean a further large outlay. The total losses to the inter-State and Union Companies over the strike are estimated at £200,000. The Australian Natives' Association adopted a resolution in favour of the Government defence policy, but against borrowing money to carry put the proposal. and also recommending the establishment of an Australian Navy League. The Federal Arbitration Court has commenced the hearing of the enginedrivers and firemen's case, which involves the conditions of employment on land engines. PERTH, March 17. Two well-known graziers in the Wyndham district died under peculiar circumstances. John MacKenzie shot himself while drawing a revolver' from a saddlebag and Sam Muggleston was found unconscious on a bash track. He subsequently succumbed. Received March 17. 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, March 17. Marshall, a workirigman at Lithgow, has come in for a windfall. The lato senior member of Marshall. Stewart and Company, shipbuilders, Glasgow, made him his chief beneficiary. The property is valued at £40,000. The Rifle Association offers £5300 in pri'.c money for next meeting, whereof £1000 besides trophies is set aside for the King's Prize. BRISBANE. March 17. Speaking at Maryborough Mr Fisher prophesied that he would soon be leadinjv a Labour Ministry. sailed. —The dredge Maui, for New Zealand.