AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Independent, Volume II, Issue 132, 21 September 1905, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE NEW LIQUOR BILL. (I'KU I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.) (Received Sept. 21,1.8 a.m.) Sydney, September 20. The Attorney-General, sympathetically replying to the New South Wales Alliar.cc deputation, who asked that the new liquor bill apply to wineshops and clubs as well as hotel licenses and the elimination of the clauses demanding a 50 per cent, poll and a two to one majority, advised the deputation to be content with the bill as a measure of reform as ho believed the rest of the reforms will follow. 11.M.5. POWERFUL. (Received Sept. 21, 9.G a.m.) Sydney, September 21. The Powerful, the new flagship for the Australian station, will be commissioned next month.

LARGE CLAIM FOR TOWAGE Sydney, Sopfombcr 21.

The owners of the tug Hero claimed £SOOO for towing'the ship Abbey Palmer out of danger near Bondi recently. The Court awarcded £BOO. MAIL CONTRACTS. Melbourne, September 21. Mr Scott, Secretary for the Central Postal Administration, expresses the opinion that a shipping ring exists which restricts the competition for mail contracts between Australia and Great Britain. A LIBERAL DONATION. Brisbane, September 21. A member of the Young Men's Christian Association donated the institution property worth £25,000. BLAKE'S ESTATE. Perth, August 12. An application was granted on behalf of the Now Zealand Accident Insurance Co. to have the administration of the estate of the late Mr Blake transferred to the Bankruptcy Court.

(Received September 20, 10.5 a.m.) THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET. Sydney, September 20. Mr Carruthers, State Premier, declared that the Government is determined to bring out immigrants. If the Opposition, objected, they could move a vote of censure.

SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA Sydney, September 20.

The Bishop of Carpentaria says it is absurd to suppose that Australia will bo allowed to permanently block settlement in the North, and other nations, teeming with population, will object to a dog-in-the-manger policy which shuts out the only labour capable of developing its territory.

AN ACT OP DISCORD. Sydney, September 20. A report submitted to the annual meeting of the Employees' Federation, stated the Arbitration Act had produced discord in every branch of labour.

The New Zcalanc Police Department states that it is in possesion of evidence which proves conclusively that the man Warton, executed for a murder in Queensland, was identical with the notorious Butler, formerly of Dunedin. Mr John Mclntyre, a Timaru farmer, was found fatally shot yesterday morning on the roadside near his home. It is thought to be a case of suicide. A correspondent of the Washington Post tells of the amusing experience of a literary friend into whose family a seventh child came last summer. The family were at their country house, and for a time a good deal of the care of the other six children devolved upon the father, who has Spartan ideas as to the upbringing of'his sons. One morning he carried his two-year-old to the creek near his home to give him a cold plunge. The child objected lustily to this proceeding, but was firmly held and ducked, notwithstanding. At the instant of the ducking, however, a brawny hand seized the Spartan father by his shoulder and flung him back, while the angry voice of the farmer who was his nearest neighbor roared in his ears : " Here, none of that ! I'll have the law on you for this !" " And," said the literary man, " it took me half an hour to convince that man that I was not trying to drown that child. Even then he wasn't wholly convinced. To the very last minute he kept on shaking his head sceptically and saying : ' Wal, I dunno about that. I dunno. You got six besides this.' "