AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11686, 22 June 1901, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

! Ry Telegraph.—Pre«s Association.—Copyright. ! COST OF MILITARY AND NAVAL i DISPLAYS. ! MF.uiorßNfi, .Tune 21. ! This Federal Government expended £43,000 j on the naval and military displays in Melj bourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, over the j Royal visit.

THE NORTH TERRITORY. MHi.r.oviiN"rc, June 21. The Federal Government intend taking over the administration of the Northern Territory as soon at the financial and other necessary arrangements ate made. WRECKAGE FOUND. AranvuiiE, June 21. Wreckage has be-n found on the beach between Kamaya and Tickera, including a lifebuoy branded "Glenrosa, Glasgow." THE WATERLOO CUR. (deceived Jnna 21, 11.6 p.m.) Svj)X!-,Y, June 21.

The Australian Waterloo Cup was won by Master Licorice, runner-up Braudoti's Blot. The Purse- was; won by Claremont, runnerun '..'l,,vc::'j. The Maugan Puree was won by Loch Diiu, runner-up Misty Rain. THE FEDERAL POSTAL BILL. Melbourne, June 21. The Premier of Tasmania has protested against the Postal Bill interfering in the conducting of Tatlereall's sweeps through the Post Cilice cs an infringement of the State rights of Tasmania. Mr. Barton replied that the Federation had power to legislate in. the direction proposd. THE WRECK 05' THE FEDERAL. Miii/iioor.XK, June 21. The inquiry into the loss of the steamer Federal found that, the vessel was well equipped in every particular, and that it was impossible to express an opinion as to the cause of the disaster. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTION'S. (Received June 22. 1.9 a.m.) yonks', June 21. In the State election.? five Ministerialists and four Oppositionists have been returned unopposed, including Messrs. John North, McUourt, and Lee. DEATH OF AN EXPLORER. PfcRTH, June 21. The death it announced of .Alexander Forrest, explorer and politician, brother of Sir John Forrest.

Mr. Forrest was ■< native o£ Wet Australia, and was 52 years ol ;>.<>, V.- W.us one of the most eminent of tho o\<>'. -ie:s of that colony. In 1379, at tho a are nt 30, lie started from Perth to explore "the north-went portion of Australia, and after a trying .journey of eight months reacted Pert Darwin. The chief results of tins expedition '.-.ere the discovery of the soa.ve and course of the Pitzroy and other large stream-, together with an estimated area, of 20.000.001' acres of, good weLl-watercel country, now known as the Iv'imberley district. lie v.as one of the delegates to the Federation Convention held in Sydney in IfWl.

Labouchere writes in Truth:— the grounds for Queen Victoria's likes and dislikes the most curious is that which led her to lake a liking to Mr. Disraeli: -"The Queen liked Disraeli because she thought she never in her life bad seen so amusing a person. Ho gratilied hex because of his bold assort ion of her knowledge; she excused his florid adulation on the ground that it was Oriental. and she was pleased with the audacious way in which he broke ihiough the ice that surrounded her." 'J bis must be hard readiny to the Tory scribes, who have so often ascribed the Queen's predilection for She divinity of the Primrose League to her having regarded him as the greatest statesman of the a.'--. It was due, it seems, to her being. amused at the antics of this pliant, servile, clever Oriental. I had the ho emr of being one of Her Majesty's dislikes. i do not suppose that it was due to inv having opposed so many Royal grants, but probably had its orb/m at my having jeered at the Battenbergs or some other of iter likes. And \el 1 have no doubt chat I had more sincere admiration ior her than most of the flunkeys who bowed and scraped before her. What 1 admired in her was her contempt for those who were trying to buy serial distinction by means ot their mnnev bags, and tie; simplicity of her habits ; whilst I always felt that ; i she did occasionally interfere too much in politics siio did so less than any of hei predecessors, and always yielded to the advice tendered to her by responsible advisers in regard to policy, and sometimes in repaid to less important matters. She would not have been a woman had she not acted on her likes and dislikes, and in everything she was thoroughly womanly,.