AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5990, 30 March 1911, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

SYDNEY, March 27. At a meetine: of Sydney Chinese it was decided to continue the boy cot oi •Japan, though, it was announced that a cable message had been received stating that it had been declared oli by China. Strong feeling was expressed against Japan's tactics in Manchuria, Korea, and Formosa. SYDNE'Y, March 28. The chairman of the Royal Commission which is taking evidence on live question of higher education, stated that while the Australian States expenditure on education ranged from 7s Sd to 12s lOd per head New Zealand spent 18s per head. The Daily Telegraph, in cotmniunting on these figures, said that it was highly creditable for New iZealand to devote so much more money to education in all its branches than any of the Australian States. ; The Chief Justice, in the absence -of the Governor, presided at a great gathering in the Town Hall in continuation of the Bible tercentenary celebrations. The heads of the various Protestant denomination's gave stirring addresses on the Bible, as the basis of faith, its influence on home ' and national life, ana! in the mission field. j .MISLBO'.URNE, March 27. ' Adherents of the Church of Christ at Preston, assisted by their Mel- : bourne co-religionists, erected! complete in one day a weatherboard church capable of seating three hundred. A vice was held in the building on the , following day. | MELBOURNE, March 27. I J lie population of the Commoni wealth at the end of last year was . 4,-182,89G, an increase for the year oi I IUS,7SS. The number of mules exceeded the females by 518,202. Tasmania's male population is two less than that of the previous year, while the females have increased by 337. PERTH, March 27Cardinal Moran, interviewed here, w-at'irJy favoured the referenda. He j believed, in giving the Federal GovernI merit all the powers it asked for. He j referred with pleasure to the AngloI AmerioanAi-Mtration Treaty and advocated a triplo alliance of ■ England, America, and Germany. Such a combination would be able to enforce the claims of peace, and be a crowning t 0 the work iof Christian civilisation.