Australian News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 April 1914, Page 3

Australian News

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FRUIT FOR THE KING. Sydney, This Day

The Goulburn Chamber of Commerce has decided to send several cases of choice fruit for presentation to the King to advertise the advantages of fruit-growing in the district. It is being argued that Tasmania was first brought into prominence by this means. - END OR MEND. Perth. This Day. The Hon. Mr Scaddan, addressing a Labour Federation gathering, condemned the Legislative Council for having rejected or mutilated thirty-two Government bills during the last two and a-half years, and announced his intention to effect a vital alteration in the Upper House or abolish it. ■ A HUGE DEAL. Brisbane, This Day. One of the largest purchases of pastoral propeiiies in recent years has been completed by the central Queensland Meat Export Company ,at Lake's Creek, which has acquired one thousand square miles of the Malvern Downs. Eighteen thousand cattle and two hundred horses are included in the sale.

NEW GUINEA EXPLORA-

TION.

Sir Rupert Clarke's expedition to Papua leaves by the Vancloon on Saturday.

Its object is the discovering of the source of the Fly river, the largest in New Guinea, and already navigated for six hundred miles. He takes specially constructed forty-five feet river launches.