AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Gisborne Times, 26 July 1905, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

; By Telegraph —Etess Association—Copyright Sydney, July 25. The Minister of Lands, comparing l Canada and Australia, shows that the latter is growing nearly twice as fast. Bei tween 1901 and 1904 tha proportionate increases of population were : Canada 3’3, Australia 5-7 per ceQt., and while Canada’s trade was £l7 10s, Australia’s was £22 per head.

Advice has been received that the Chinese stowaways recently discovered on a German steamer at Sydney are working , as convicts on roads' in German New Guinea. Three have already died. ! Details of the recent attack on an ex- ! pedition in Nau distriot, New Guinea, show that Judge Stutgart and Captain | Mueller; of the Government yacht See- ' stern, were wounded, neither seriously. Five of the attackers were shot dead, two ! native police being killed in mistake, ow- : ing to the darkness.

■ It is reported that a proposal ie afoot to ■ establish a German penal settlement in '< the Admiralty Islands, long-term prisoners ! being sent from Germany. On completing i their sentences they will be given grants : of lands to enable them to become colo- , nists, Residents of she Gierman Arohipeli ago are strongly opposed to the proposal, I and a representative public meeting deI cided to forward a protest to the German i Government,

- Brisbane, July 25. An attempt to hold-up the mail coach at Mount ulolloy failed owing to the horses breaking away. The mails were recovered intact.'; 1 Adelaide, July 25. Mr Butler, the Premier, meets the House to-day, when, if a “ sudden-death motion is again carried, he will re?ign. Perth, July 25. A meeting of four members each of the Government and Opposition parties discussed a proposal for coalition. • mier subsequently announced that the difficulties in tbs way of coalition had been found to be insuperable.