AUSTRALIA.
' United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 20, 10.10 a.m.) STATE OIL REFINERY. MELBOURNE, April 20. The Defence Department has received ■ proposal from Papua to establish a national petroleum refinery. Mr Pearce states that he has received optimistic reports and is hopeful that a rich find has been made. THE KOOMBANA. . BRISBANE, April 20. The steamer Montoro has arrived here. Her captain denies a report that when near Port Darwin he received a wireless message from the lost Koombana. MURDERER TO DIE. The Executive has refused to reprieve Joseph Pfeffer, who shot his sister-in-law dead at Albert Park on December 12. Pfeffer will be executed on April 29—the first execution in Victoria for many years. ' CONTROL OF IMIGRATION. MELBOURNE, April 20. The Federal Government has turned down a suggestion made by the last Premier's Conference that the Commonwealth should annually arrange for 260,000 berths for immigrants on the groundthat it is inadvisable to introduce divided control in the work of immigration, which is now solely controlled by the States.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10440, 20 April 1912, Page 8
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