THE COMMONWEALTH

Southland Times, Issue 16842, 19 September 1911, Page 5

THE COMMONWEALTH

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. tßy Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. ] MELBOURNE, September 18. Vessels trading between New Zealand and Australia, excepting passenger boats, are exempted from the provisions of the Quarantine Act, provided they are not from a proclaimed port. This is done to enable loading vessels to make Australian ports first ports of call. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. MR WADE AND MR WILLIS. SYDNEY', September 18. Mr Wade, referring to Mr Willis’s challenge, said that it would ill become the leader of a political party to enter a political contest with a blackleg member of that party. It was the duty of Mr Willis’s constituency to drum him out of the Liberal army. LABOUR AND THE LAW. SYDNEY, September 18. Mr Griffith, in refusing the request of the Broken Hill Miners’ Association to resign his portfolio and seat owing to the action of the Government In sending police to protect Lithgow non-unionists, says that no body of men sworn to administer the law could permit one citizen to blue .metal another or set fire to property. If this were not prevented by the police the persons attacked would have to defend themselves, and ultimately they would arrive at the American system of the maintenance by wealthy corporations of Pinkerton’s police armed with Winchesters, a state of things no Labour Government would tolerate.