AUSTRALIAN GABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9222, 26 May 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN GABLES.

(Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Peb Press Association.)

MELBOURNE, May 25. Shaw was sentenced to two years for arson in connection with the Fitzroy explosion. Received May 26, 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY, May 26. Mr Wade, speaking at the annual conference of the Labour and Reform Association, said that while a superficial view of the result of the Federal elections might lead to the conclusion that they must be prepared to waive feeling in favour of the Opposition at the State elections, careful examination of the returns led him to the conclusion that there was no justification for assuming that the Liberal party, so far as the State issues were concerned, was hopeless, or in an even unfavourable position. Speaking at Tamworth, the Minister for Lands, in claiming success for the closer settlement movement, foreshadowed a wide extension of the system. MELBOURNE, May 26. ■ Naval Commandant Tickell goes to England to bring out the Commonwealth destroyers. The Minister for Agriculture has expressed the view that the only remedy for the want of steamer accommodation for frozen produce was for the Commonwealth to build and run its own steamers to convey produce, mails, and passengers to Europe. ADELAIDE, May 26. When Parliament meets next Thursday Mr Verran moves a "sudden death" motion. PERTH, May 26. The death sentences passed on - six aboriginals on April 8 for the murder of the pearler Jones were commuted to penal servitude for life.