AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 153, 28 June 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

TTTF. AT ATT, SYNDICATE. (Received 10.47 ajn.) MELBOURNE, tfxis day. The Federal Cabinet is still •wrestling with the mail problem. At a meeting of the State Cabinet, the Acting-Premier announced that the guarantee "agreement" would not be signed while the contractors were in default. The security bond demanded by the Commonwealth, must be paid first- The Government was not disposed to act against the Federal Government, and would either require its approval or assurance that it had no objection to what was done.

MISHAP TO PARTY OF CHILDREN.

(Received 10.47 a-m.) MELBOURNE, "this day. While thirty school children, in charge of their teachers, were standing on some staging at the Fitzroy Gasworks the platform collapsed, and all wei* precitated to the pavement, 20 feet below. Five -were removed to the hospital, while others sustained slighter injuries.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS IN ENGLAND.

(Received 10.47 ajn-) MELBOURNE, this day. Sir W. J. Lyne says he considers that Australia must do something to advertise itself in England, and Mr. Deakin agrees i with him, that some means ought to be adopted for sending an "assortment of news" to London, either by a subsidy to the Press Association, or some {other means.