AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 18 August 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Sydney, August I<. For the first time in Australia wireless has’ bean used to aid the police. The captain of the steamer Crental! informed the police that a confidence trickster was aboard. r i he police met the boat on its arrival in Sydney, and arrested him. ■ (Received 18, 3.25 a.m.) ' Sydney, August 18. A rust is visiting the Wellington district (N.S.W.) Ha states that he is going into business soon, and might take up a few hundred, acres on the halves system there for wheat tanning. ’ Melbourne, August 18. There are dissqntions in the State Ministerial Party over the Preferential Voting Bill, which point to the likelihood of an early general election. Melbourne, August 18.

In challenging for the Sayonara Cup, the owner of the Suypnara stipulated even terms, the first across the line to win. The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron insists on time allowances. The race is likely to drop through, the challenger declining to compete excepting in a straight-out spoi Ling race on even terms. Melbourne, August 18.

Mount Lyell returns from duly 30th to August 9th inclusive arc 25,371 tons ore treated, also 53 toi’.s purchased ore". The converters produced 510 tons of blister copper, containing copper 511 tons, silver 31,032 ounces, and gold 771 ounces: Launceston, August 18. Mr .Murray, local manager of the Union Steam Ship Co., is dead. (Received 18, 9.25 a.m.) The Government meets the House on Wednesday. ' ft is expected that Mr MacDonald will be re-cloctcd unopposed for Cobar. This will give the Government a majority of one.

THE BUTTER MARKET. ("Per Press Association.) Palmerston, August 18. The well-known London firm of Mills and Sparrow write as follows to their Now Zealand representative, on hotter prospects for the coining season: “You will remember that we mentioned a few days hack that we had some rain, hut now the dry weather, not' only in England and Ireland but also in Siberia and the Continent, is again with us, and continues. Continental supplies are decreasing and We fully• ’Anticipate that this will he the case with the Home and the Irish j make also, unless we get some alteration in the wxjathcr conditions. If we were to staite the conditions as 'they stand to-day we should he taking all sorts cY'places in the near future, but, as ap#,,mentioned previously j conditions i change so quickly that rVe hesitate to i;r spcak too strongly or become too optimistic. But while wo endeavoujl to keep our optimism down as tnqgh as possible yet we have to confess that we see no daylight altCadl(H-’iihy Ih'wer prices for some very cblisiderahle tiih'tf’ In fact the reverse ajs' the case, look for higher prices than we are wanting to-day and wo feel that 'every- package of butter which‘is here on this side and which has been left over f.rop various steamers when the quantity coming to hand was in excess of the requirements even though they are of a secondary character’ will lie required.; and when the butlers which we hope will soon he sent from the colonies come to hand then there will he an exceptional demand and good prices will he made. think that everything points to the coming season being an exceptionally good one for our friends in the Australasian colonies. We never felt so confident as we do at the present moment as to the future of the colonial trade.”