AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15003, 27 May 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS .

By Telegraph.— Association.— QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS, .'.'■• Brisbane, May 6, , Me. .&>*bim;'l^ J. Bkeslih (Socialist) won the Port Curtis seat,- the third and final count giving him a majority of two. The first count gave Breslin a >-majority of one and the second count made the votes recorded for the tWo candidate? equal. ■ ' -v ';■ MO MOKE BOB3M>WPrO, J&eoel'WHi May 25. 5.5 P.m.) ~ , ,' ' Melboujrot, May 25. Mr. Fisher, Commonwealth, Prima Minister, 'replying to cril-foiwas ;on the ; ',; Federal financial policy/ said it had-been determined that there shall be no inpre borrowing, excepting in case of war or I other emergency. That policy " was : much i Bounder than a ostein of borrowing in times of peace and prosperity; :i ' : '"■■■'',] MELBOUBNE HAE3OUE. K" ." . ',' Mtt»oij l nN», -'.May.' 25- :■ , To allow the largest liners likely to visit Australia to enter Port Philip, the channel to Port' Melbourne is being deepened! to 4&ft at low water, at a cost of £50,000. THE NEW HEBRIDES. Melbourne, May 25. H Mr. : Fisher, Commonwealth Prime Minis- | ter, referring to complaints regarding the 1 condominium in the New Hebrides, says 1 that the Commonwealth should bo given I a hand. He would like to see an Austra- I lian policy covering the whole of : the 1 islands, and thought the New Hebrides I might well be under Australian controL CASE OF SMALIrFOS. Brisbane, May 25. The steamer Yawata Mara, from Japan,, lias arrived at Townsville, with a saloon I passenger suffering from smallpox. SECRETARY CHARGED WITH THEFT Sydney, May 25. Hugh Jamieson, secretary of the Papuan Eubber Company, has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing £273. SYDNEY FOBESiStoTtE. Sydney, May 2.5. Since the present New South Wales Government took office it hati resumed fiva and a-half miles of foreshore along the harbour, at a cost of £130,000. undesirable nOCaBANT:;. Sydney, May-25; Judge Murray, in, imposing the maid* mum sentences on two recent axrivaU convicted of stealing, said he hoped future immigrants would not include so many unsatisfactory people as had been coming lately. Six captains were fined a total, of £1400 for allowing''l4 prohibited immigrants to land, ' . ■ ''' ■ .. I ' .'. .'.. l i ~ l£? i A NON-UNIONIST'S DISMISSAL)£jj Damages for "toss of wages" Jj^vDSenll granted against the secretary,** th * PortM Philip Stevedores' Assoda#- *& proctt*.« ing a non-unioni'ft's disj^P** ;"' : .; J ";/'':"■