LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 103, 21 June 1911, Page 6

LATEST AUSTRALIAN.

(iiecoived 21, JO.JO a.m.) Melbourne, June 21. : io Ticasurer estimates tii.it the. year will end with a surplus <ji me) a million hi reply to enquiry, the Minister :;J Customs Inns received a iettci from tnc Secret .iy ol the Amalgamated butchers and Workmen in North America, whciuio it it slated that the meat ti list has been reaching out to other eountiics, and the writer had noticed an article in the American Aio..t Trade .journal stating that the i rma nad secured control of largo landed interests in Australia and intended snoitly to develop them, lire writer utters a warning to he ready to pi meet workers against opposition, which was bound to come it the. Trust secures a footing. ’there have been further heavy rains and all rivers in ICastern Gippsland are in high flood. The (.ioulburn ilivoi moke it banks, in several 'places, and a wide area is submerged. Cunsiuerable damage has been done in Ci:c i'auiim tliyer valley, nuicli maize being destroyed, Along the Mitchell ,ii»a other rivers stock was removed iu time to prevent loss. At Seymour some streets are under water; tne police station only is reachable by neats. Tcopie having business at tne Com t-house utiiiseu boats. Two bridges over the Vaira at War-burton weie swept away. The riven overlie wcci on to some of the low-lying suborns of Melbourne, and after reaching Lae neight of 22 i feet, began to slowly fall; but as the water Iron) the higher reaches is still to come down, a fmtbei rise is feared. Adelaide, June 21. Miss Maurer, a mo|iiber ol the Gay Gordons’. Theatrical Company, Ims been awarded tMOO damages lor injuries received by being knocked down by a motor. Sydney, June 21. The .Minister for” Labour expresses himself as greatly impressed by the change of feeling in the .Newcastle district, and says the minors are beginning to understand tne futility of the last great strike. The League of Wheelmen are arlanging a six-days’ bicycle race early in January, the prizes totalling kloOO, open to all riders. It is hoped to attract the world’s cliainpjofis. The oiiicial organiser of the British immigration League, after visiting all tne Slates, reports that the icsaits of bis enquiries bad convinced niin that tnere should not be a single capable willing worker in the British Islands looking for work. Thu Wammoo is delayed by heavy weather Brisbane, June 21. Tiie Marino Board iias delivered its boding into the loss ol Llie Vongala. After lengthily reviewing the evidence, it declares that while it is giatil’yiug and reassuring that the vessel’s stability and seaworthiness remain unassailable, and the competency and carefulness of Captain Knight unimpeachable, the Board simple buds that after becoming lost to view by the iighthousekeeper at Dent Island, the fate of the Vongala passes beyond human ken into the realms of conjee Lire, to add one more to the long roll of the mysteries of the sea. The Board commends the company for its prompt action in endeavouring by every means, at its disposal to obtain information A regarding the whereabouts of the Yongafa. From the evidence of some experiences of shipmasters, the Board confirmed the opinion that the risk of navigating the Queensland coast was .considerably enhanced during the hurricane mouths, and thinks it will ho generally conceded that the only element o) safety will be found in securing the lest anchorage available in the seven! harbours of refuge that exist along this part of the coast. / Brisbane, June 21. The Sugar Works’ strike threatens to spread. Large strikers’, camps have been formed in the Mackay and Townsville districts. Both sides are (inn. Growers threaten to'import labour.