AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13390, 19 January 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.— Association.— Copyrigrft*. AUSTRALIA FOIL THE AUSTRALIANS.

(Received January 18. 11.45 p.m.)

Melbourne, January 18. I'm; Governor-General (Lord Northeole), in a. speech at the Manufacturers' Exhibition, to-day, said Mr. Deakin had mentioned as one of the cardinal feature* of his policy, •'Australia for the Australian*." The natural corollary was Australians for Australia. They made a just and legitimate boast of being Empire-builders. They had made the United States great, developed Canada, and the Argentine, and have a national Australian population to whose strong right hand tin' defence of the country could be safely trusted.

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. (Received January 18. 11.45 ij.m.) Sydnkv, January 18. The complete official figures of the voting for the House of Representatives at, tin*

recent- general elections show the percentage of electors who voted for the successful candidates in the various New .South Wales electorates ranged from 17.35 to 40.09, tin average being 29.96.

A QUEENSLAND LABOUR LKADKR Hrishank, January 18.

Mi'. Glassey, ex-Labour leader, a.nd «xSenator of Queensland, has decided to reenter State politics.

FATAL PTOMAINE POISONING.

-M i.i.noi i:m-:, January 18.

.A family at Lancofield, in Victoria, suf« feted from ptomaine poisoning yesterday, after eating tinned pineapple. One woman succumbed and another is in a precarious condition.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO TWO BOYS.

Mklbochne, January 18.

Two boys named Cullender and Malthouse fell with a heavy case off a cart in Melbourne yesterday, and both were killed

THE GOLD ROBBERY TRAGEDY. I'r.KTH. January 18.

At the inquest on the body of the burglar Marley, who was shot recently, when, taking part in a robbery at Towel Hill mine, the jury returned a verdict in which they found that the shooting by Gerald Browne was justified.