AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7921, 29 September 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Per Press Association). (Eeceived September 29, at 10.3 a.m.) SYDNEY, This day, 1 By the judgment of the Supreme Court, the Australian Alliance Company is ordered to pay to the insurance fund over £31,000, with interest. Sums aggregating £23,000 have to be paid into the same fund as profits which ought not to have been distributed to shareholders.

BRISBANE, This 'day.

Bieh gold discoveries are reported in the MacMnlay ranges. A specimen yielded at therate of 212 - ounces to the ton.. The stone is described as bein« like Mount Morgan. °

Received September 29, at 9.44 a.m,

SYDNEY. September 29. Only 59 per cenfc of the electors voted at the last State elections.

At the annual meeting of the New South Wales Employers' Federation, the president said the Federation was working in the interests of the employer as well as the employee, but he strongly condemned the preference clause in the Arbitration Bill.

Eeceived Sept. 29, at 9.44 a.m,

i MELBOURNE, September 29. ■ In the Senate, the Attorney-General assured members that the action of the representative on the Pacific Cable Board would be guided by the test of what was best for Australia and Australian trade. |The Senate passed supply 'and-ad-j journed until-October 12th. ' | Received September 29, at 9.44 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This 'day.' In the House, Sir W. Lyne, warmly "attacked Mr Reid and charged him, and not the Labour party, with ousting the Deakui Government. Mr Reid declared it was an untruth. Sir W. Lyne said he would go a long way towards State socialism, although opposed to extreme socialism. The Opposition alliance was the nucleus of a great Liberal force to fight the Conservative" movements behind Mr-Reid.