LATE CABLES.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright! (Received March 15, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 15. , Soaking general rain is falling. MELBOURNE, March 15. The Federal electors m Victoria number 703,699, the Avomen exceeding the men by over 11,030. The ' Department of External Affairfc is advised- from London that several Australian Avoods me' suitable for the manufacture of aeroplanes. Tho demand far such woods is oiiormous and iilcreas. ing. ■■-■■■;-■ • 'Ihe report of the Murray Waters Commission urges that except for stock and domestic supply for settlement within, ja ' reasonable distance of the streams, irrigation should he deemed a paramount' use of the: Murray system. It adA'ocatcs the canalisation of tho Murray and Murrumbridgce by means of locks and Aveirs, and suggests that iv the event ol NeAV South Wales, Victoria, and South Ausaraiia failing to come to an agreement '; regarding the regulation of tlie river and its tributaries an' 'agreement for thc same purpose."bo entered into between any two of the States concerned ; also for the appointment of an interstate board to consider thc Avhole question. The Victoria Racing Club has decided, owing to the number of horses injured through being galloped on by those shod I .with plates, to prohibit Uhe use of platet at Fleihington.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12097, 15 March 1910, Page 6
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