AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13050, 15 December 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■.'■'■'■ '-— : ——>o>—- ——- .. ■; :;';,■':>•■:■ By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright. THE LATE LADY RAWSON., (Received December 15, 1.7 a.m.) . , .* Sydney, December 14. J An impressive memorial service in connect -• tion with the death of Lady Rawson wag held at St. Andrew's Cathedral to-day, -,'; /" * -THE CHINESE TRAGEDY/ * :: -' Sydney, December 14. "' According to a v fellow stowaway, the) Chinese whose body was- found in the har* , bour recently, was too sick to get ashore, ' and demanded the return of the money he =: . had paid to enable him to stow away. The Chinese portion of the Airlie'a crew declined to refund, ; and threw him into the -' - harbour. The police, however, favour the ';■-* theory of suicide. ; ' "'"".'".• PASTOivALISTS AND LAND SETTLEMENT. Sydney,-" December 14. At a meeting of the Lands Commission! yesterday, a lengthy document was presents - ed on behalf of the pastoralists, giving their : views of the questions of land tenure and ■•= settlement. It is urged that the "evidence ■■', 'I so far submitted to the Commission ;is principally ex parte, and given in. the in-. | terests of the smaller settlers. The state-.;"." ! ment is practically a reply to the statement of the Fanners and Settlers' • Association, which the pastoralitits contend largely con-;.-, sists of sweeping general assertions that the"""' ~ legislation and administration had combined 5 : : to favour the pastor at the expense <of * the residential small; settlers. The pas- ■ toralists are entirely favourable to the lands being thrown open for settlers, but -not ior .-.; ■'■',- :" indiscriminate selection without an attempt"' ' tc classify them. H.M.S. CAMBRIAN. - , . . '- ,'. Thursday' Island, December 14. The second-class cruiser Cambrian (4360 ; ; tons, 19.5 knots), bound from Portsmouth ' to Sydney, to join the Australasian squad- • ron, has arrived at Thursday Island.