AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

. ... VT . .... (Press Assp. — By Tolegraph. — Copyright) " SYDNEY, April 15. Tlio attendance- at the show - was twenty-thousand. Hyani's Blossom 11. .was awarded the Royal Society's £100 prize for butter fat tests. Six mi Hangs' yielded 7;jlbs,of butter fat. The sauie owner's Blossom 111. won the Sydney Mail prize, and under similar conditions yielded 8.341b5. ' At the sales in . connection with the show the shorthorn bulls, the property of J. Grant, Invercargill, brought 60, 55, 43 and 35 guineas respectively. Three belonging to J. Small, Canterbury, brought 66, 28, and 22 guineas respectively. SYDNEY, April 16. The weather is overcast and ingTwo men, Jvjenis and FitzwilUains, were burnt to death through the destruction of a tent at Broken Hill. •Übituary :* ReV. H. Rohjolms, -wellknown as representative ja Australasia of tlio British and Foreign Bible Society. The ])olice liust night raided an alleged gambling Bhop in Engine street, and arrested nearly 200 people. There was great excitement.'. " (Received April 17, 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 17. A Hiiaacial article in the Daily Telegraph, while declaring that the Statist's estimate tha'L 'twenty millions had been, sent Home for investment is exaggerated, admits that twelve millions had been reniitted within the past two years. A Tinanimous agreement has been arrived at by representatives of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia for weltlemeiit of the Murray water difficulty. Thi) limitation placed on New South Wales, pending % the establishinput of a. system of water conservation works, has been fixed 'aV 220,090 feet pir minute,, and ou'Viotoria. 130,000 cubic feet during the dry moutlis of the year. South Australia must not be reduced below 70,000 cubic feet per minuto. Conuuentuig on the stand taken by the Victorian Labor Conference ;igaiust protectionist overtures, the" secretary of theNew South Wales Political Labor League states that the Labor party have decided to look to their own platform for their industrial Mulvation. MELBOURNE, April 15. The Labqr Conference- discussed the Chamber" of ' Manufacturers' ' proposal* to carry! on a joint protectionist propaganda arid tlie Protectionist Association's suggestion not to contest certain seats "where the' contests were between freetrade and protection. Tho: conference decided to contest every scat where there was a possibility of Labor winning, and not to cooperate with the Chamber of Manu*. facturers, but light for Labor principles only. '••■■■■.. MELBOURNE, April \6. The Labor Conference decided to invite Lady Wai-wick to visit Australia pri&r to tlio Federal* elections to carry on propaganda work. / MELBOURNE, April 17. Mr Deakin hus received a confidential despatch relating to the settlement of tho j New Hebrides question.