Australian News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 February 1913, Page 3

Australian News.

[UT KLKCriUO TELKGRAPH- OUTRIGHT] [PUR riIKBB ABeOGIATIGS-^ (llcceived This Day, 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Louis Becke's funeral, at Wayerloy cemetery, was largely attended. The chairman of the Brick Association challenges tho Hon. Mr Grifiitl'.s's statement that Govorninont <:om[)otiLioii in tho brickmaking 'iiduced the Association to givo a rebato. He offers to pay £1000 to tho hospital if the statement is proved MELBOURNE/ This. Day. Tho Hon. Mr O'Malley, in receiving an unemployed deputation, denounced the .State immigration "policy, and said it ought to be stopped because the labour market was over* : nwded. Ho characterised tho pol. icy as "political cannibalism." Tho Hon. Mr Tudor proposes tb<it the question of trade reciprocacy ue discussed by the Empire Trade Conference, for which tho Hon. F. .•!. H. Fisher is coining over from Ne , ' Zealand. The Hon. Mr Foster, of Cann<l.-i. also will be present, and possibly South African will be represented. Mr Tudor holds that industrial conditions in Saw Zealand and Canada are nearly the same as Australia's own, and that the question of trade relations with those conntries are worthy of discussion. Australia, he snys. may find there nro things one may produce and th< other does not. and an agreement made flint will bo mutually beneficial. He hopes for good results from tho conference.