STATE POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13463, 9 December 1907, Page 5

STATE POLITICS.

THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. MR KETR HtARDIE'S RECEI'iIIION. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright ADELAIDE, Dec. 7. ' 'The Council has ratified thoi agreeineaiti to transfer t!he Northern. Territory to ti\o Federal Government. In the Assembly severs*] members ihotly reseinted tlhe 'remarks made by a Lesrisi latO've Councillor regarding the reception , given to Mr Keir Hardia at Parliament House, and urged till© • Premier to! taka action in view of! the. reflections' caist on members of the Assembly. One of tlhe members characterised the'remarks us insulting .and blackguardly insinuations. THE LITHGOW IRONWORKS. SYDNEY, Dec. 7. 'Hi* Commcrcul Banking Company infoimed M"i Stndford tihat the bank could not agree to the Government's terms for the advance to the Ltthgow konUolk<" , Tn the in lcplj to a statement tlhit the bank had decided to closedown on the nonuoikb, und appeals to the Go\ eminent- to devise means to keep Hie m arias going. Mi Wade, the Pnlirctei, st iter] that he hid no official lnfoimothm on li'ie mattei, .uid could not say -wlvati fiuthei -.lepi Mould lie taken, bull 11iei Go\ - emmet)' -weie prepand to nuke effoit* to pienent the dWocaiioin of the ry. RceeiVLd 051 n.m ,-"Decembei 9th. The latest development in connection ' Mith the Lithgow noriwoiks n that notiico m.is pobled today that all dep,ntment.s Mith the -exception of the; bLiut furnaces and iion mine- ati Cauoai Mill be cU4"d doM n tommioM. This Mill Lender idle 1750 peisons, and dneety _and mifHii eetly affect 3000 persons A deputation, representatives of all clashes kit Lilhgow, wniis on the Premier to-moirotf, to ingG the Government to t&ke steps to jpievent thedisaster thieatenmg the town by tho stoppage of the. works. „