AUSTRALIAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12166, 6 March 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN.

(United Press Assdciation—Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 5. The Labour Council, on the motion of the Seamen's Union delegates, rescinded/ by 66 votes to 49, the extreme powers it gave itself recently, of calling upon all Unions to strike whether they wished or not. The Council stil lreserves the right to check the spread of trouble during periods of industrial unrest. FREMANTLE, March 5Another case of smallpox has occurred on the steamer Paroo.

MELBOURNE, March 4. j An employee at Lamb's store at Mur- : ton reports that, while in charge alone during the dinner hour, two men entered the premises. One, presenting a revolver, ordered him to bail up, whereupon he knocked the intruder down. The thieves, after firing two'harmless shots, and binding and gagging the em- • ployee, ransacked the safe, but secured only about £5. They then made their escape. The police are investigating. j The Minister of Defence, speaking at ! a banquet, said there were many matters whereon an agreement was required by Australia regarding a common method- of ..working .with other nations. Joorisiderab)e energy- ha,d,beeii.,displayed , in preventing the "smuggling in of Chinese, but he altogether deprecated antiChinese feeling, which "would work nothing but injury to ourselves. Australia . is too proud and too big a nation for , such prejudices. The present Govern- ' meut was strongly adverse to any differential treatment of any portion of i the citizens o,f Australia. Tliough it in- J tended to prevent as far as possible Anti-Chinese feeling, the Government was determined that the immigration and quarantine laws should not be set : at nought.