AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
BUTTER MARKET EXCITED.
Received August 3, 1.3 a.m. SYDNEY, August 2. The butter'market is excited, and the price is expected to advance at Melbourne to-morrow to 187s (?) per cwt. '.I A MELBOURNE INVENTION. MELBOURNE, August 1. Rose's Recording Target Company, with a capital of £25,000, has been registered to acquire the rights of the invention from Mr Sydney Rose, of Melbourne. Electrical engineering papers favourably notice the invention. Mr Milward, chief electrician of the Pacigc Cable Company, has been appointed the board's manager, with his headquarters in Sydney.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL. MELBOURNE, August 1. The Workmen's Compensation Bill includes a provision making employers' liable to pay for diseases common to certain trades.
LAW, > MELBOUKNE, August 1. The Federal Government has received intimation that legislation has been adopted by the United States permitting foreign vessels to engage in trade between America and the Philippines, and that a similar Bill relating to Hawaii is being dealt with,
ROUGH ON MEMBERS OP PARLIAMENT.' SIDNEY, August 1. A speaker at the farmers' Conference said that large financial institutions could well afford to pension for life, members of Parliament who had passed the Western Land Bill. He had heard that £60,001' was paid to secure its passage.
TH# AMERICAN FLEET.
deceived August 3, 12.13 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 2. Reuter's has received the following information by wireless telegraph I from the American Fleet:—B p.m., July 30 —The cruise so far has been uneventful. Four hours tactical evolutions take place daily. The coal consumption is / decreasing daily, thus giving a 'greater, steaming radius. The symmetrical development and movements of the battleships along all lines is most gratifying. Later, 8 p;m , July 31—The Fleet will pass the east end of Tutuila to-morrow (Saturday), at 6 a.m., and then cruise along the southern shore and thereafter shape its course direct for Auckland. All
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9157, 3 August 1908, Page 5
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