AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 96, 13 June 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

o BOOKED FOR NEw ZEALAND. (Received 12, 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, June 12. Sir Kenneth Douglas and tlic aviator Hammond arc passengers by the Mocraki. FOOTBALL. Sydney, June 12. The New South Wales and Queensland matches demonstrated that the Now South Wales team was in top form. The outstanding feature was allround combination. DRIVERS’ STRIKE SETTLED. Adelaide, June 12. The drivers’ strike has been settled as an outcome of negotiations wnthe Employers’ Federation. FROM STATE TO COMMONWEALTH. Melbourne, June 12. The value of properties transferred from Victoria to'the Commonwealth is two quarters of a million, whereon £BO,OOO par annum interest is claimed from July Ist last. THE DOMINIONS AND TREAIiES. Melbourne, June 12. • Mr Hngh.cs regards Sir Laurier’s proposal to endow the Dominions with powers to make tie.Aies with foreign countries as comploieiy opposed to the Jmpcrinliastic ideal. If adopted, it might happen—in the ca%c of Canada it would happen—that some portion of the Empire wouid have Letter tariff terms with parti miry countries than other portions had, and this would make for the disintegration of the Empire. THE SHEFFIELD CHOIR Brisbane, June 12. The members of the Sheffield Choir include Lady Noraii Noel, daightor of the Earl of Gainsborough, j i.o feumo of Saturday’s concerts was that all the items given were unacconinn lieii. and they were characterised by dearness of enunciation and dramatic intensity. NEW SOUTH WALES WEATHER. (Received 12, 9.-10 a.m.) Sydney, June 12. The weather is bitterly cold, with gentle snow and heavy frosts in many districts. A CRY FROM FIJI. Sydney, June 12. The secretary of the Labour Council has received a letter from a resident of Fiji, seeking to enlist the Council’s sympathy against what lie terms the enslavement of the natives. Ho alleges that the.natives are compelled, in spite of protests, to keep the roads in order without payment of any kind. THE MIMIRO. Melbourne, Juno 12. Arrived.—-Mimiro,/from New York. THE GOV URN OR-£ EX ERA V- 3 : Melbourne, June 12. Mr O’Malley suggests that if the Governor-General desired to visit Sydney or Melbourne or other cities, lie should do so as the President of the United States did—secure apartments in a hotel or rent a cottage. THE JAPS. Sydney, June 12. Sir Hartley Williams, who is revisiting Australia, spent several weeks in Japan, and says the anxiety of the Japanese to buihQ a powerful navy is undiminished. Notwithstanding assurances to the contrary, Japanese eyes were turned Australiawards. ' They were questioning tnemcclves regarding our empty places, and urged the necessity of Australia lilling these. Port Darwin, June 12 The Neptune’s crew arc Japanese. JEWELLERY ROBBERY. Brisbane, June 12. Burglars visited Flavell and Roberts’ jewellery shop at Rockhampton and secured between £2OOO and £.IOOO worth of jewellery, also £3O in cash. VICTORIAN FLOODS. Melbourne, Juno 12. Floods in the Trafalgar district did much damage to crops, including the destruction of 100 tons of onions. Some . residents were . compelled to leave their homes. mutiny of boys. (Received 12, 0 a.m.) Paris, June 11. Two hundred and iitty boys, aged from ten to nineteen, mutinied in the penitentiary at Beile Island. ! iiey complained* that the food was uneatable, and after arming themselves ivi... scythes and piterforks, locked up _..0 officers. The'boys then scattered over the island. Gendarmes have boon sent to arrest them.