AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Temuka Leader, Issue 582, 27 May 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

PERTH, May 24.

Responding on Parliament’s meeting, Mr Quinlan, Speaker of the Assembly, declared that West Australia had suffered greatly by federation. He said that if he had his way he would flog every man who voted for federation. He would give Sir John Forrest the worst flogging. SYDNEY, May 24. Consternation has been created at Joluit, one of the Marshall Islands, by tho discovery that a nnmlxsr of Japanese are living on tho outlying i»let of Caspar Hicn. They stab; that they have been there three years, collecting birds, fislrcs, etc., and are awaiting a steamer to return. Their landing is a breach of the German laws. Tho Governor has gone to investigate. Professor Lowrie, formerly director of Lincoln Agricultural College, who was asked to accept the Professorship of Agriculture at Sydney University, declined, owing to having made a five years’ engagement with tho Government of West Austra.ia to till the position of Director of Agriculture. At the University ho was offered a ten years’ engagement at £IOOO a your, the same salary as ho is receiving in West Australia. MELBOURNE, May 21. A passenger by the Moana. named Rogers, was found unconscious in his ■bunk, and when removed to the hospital life was'extinct. He suffered greatly between the Bluff and Hobart from sea sickness.