AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8227, 3 September 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BISLEY RIFLE MEETING. PROPOSED AUSTRALIAN TEAM. MELBOURNE, September 1. The Miniater of Defence (Mr Playford) has promised £ for £ up to £I,OOO to supplement the money subscribed to send a team to Bisley next year to compete for the Kolapore Cup. A FULL CRADLE. MELBOURNE, September 1. The wife of a labouring man at Richmond has presented her husband with four children at one birth. All are living. PREFERENTIAL PROPOSALS. FEELING IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, September 1. The Sydney Morning Herald say —The feeling in commercial circles in Sydney is deoidedly adverse to Mr Deakin's preference proposals. A large seotion of the business people do not regard them seriously. Regarding the reciprocity treaty with New Zealand the impression is that Australia has very little to gain. The Daily Telegraph's Melbourne correspondent reports that to the New Zealand proposals there will be apparently little if any real opposition, but the British preferential scheme is sure to be criticised minutely and fought line by line. The same correspondent also states that the geneial complaint amongst mem hers is that the most inopportune time has been chosen fcy the Government to launch its proposals, as the business paper is already cbok«d .with important matters. Freetrade members and the Opposition intend to oppose the increase of duties as a breach of the eleotoral compact of fiscal peaoe. ADELAIDE, September!. The New Zealand treaty is favonrably received in business ciroles here, as it covers articles that this State can produce and for which additional outlets are sought.