AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13798, 10 July 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph —Press Association Copyright, | LABOUR CONFERENCE. Brisbane, July 9. . ' ■ The subjects of discussion at the Laboui Conference include the Federal monopoly oi press cablegrams. The Labour Conference made the amendment of the Federal Constitution to ensure effective legislation for the "new" protection and arbitration V . fighting plank of the platform. TRADE WITH CANADA. Melbourne, July 9. The Federal Parliament next, session deals with the question of reciprocity . with Canada. . . ... ■ ■' ; -, -; ,; FODDER FROM SOUTH AFRICA. Melbourne, July 9. The Minister for Agriculture has agreed that South African fodder may be chaffed and re-exported to India = and ■■■.■■ elsewhere without being, removed tin? . bond. A STRANDED STEAMER. Brisbane, July 9. : The latest report is to the effect thai the position, of the stranded Hornby • Grange is unaltered. The cargo is now being lightered. LOSSES CAUSED; BY DROUGHT. Sydney," July 9. . At the annual meeting of the Pastoral* i ists' Union Mr. Win. Edward Abbott ex-M.L.A., in his presidential address, stated that more than two millions sterling worth of stock had been lost in the Riverina and Victoria" during the last three months owing to the drought. H« condemned the Commonwealth Immigration Act. CRIME DECREASING. • \v ;: .'^■''■' ;,; ;:' ■. • ;■;.' / Syukky, July 9. The report of the Comptroller, of Prisons shows "that the number of prisoners dealt with last year was 393 less than the previous year. ■ Melbourne, July 9. ■.: The; average prison population last year , was 914, against 1007 during the previous year. In, 16 years, the proportion of priisoners to tlus general population has Mien from one in 613 to one in 1376.