AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 158, 8 July 1903, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

fib paras association. Btoh*y, July 7. Noumean advices state that in a native war in Pentecote Island, a child wag cut to pieces, five men of the Maliiusi mission were killed, and an effioar of a recruiting veswl was shot in the arm. Brisbasi, July 7. At a in etirg attended by the Premier and other members of the 0 ibinet, and many members of Parliament and leading citizens, it was decided to form a national fund of £IO,OOO to secure paoper representation for Qieantland in the Federal elections. The speeches strongly condemned the Bartoa Government', and urged the necessity of fuppjrting candidates opposed to Soci ilistio legislation. Mr Philp (Premier) said it w. s a bad thing that a small minority in tb* F dural Parliament should oontrol the mij >risy. He would vote for a Raid Government, as no Government oould be woroe than Barton's. . £2OOO was subscribed and promised. Mkuoubvx, July 7. The Federal Executive has deoidsd to accept, without surcharge, letter* from Canada prepaid a peony. Sir George Turner, Federal Treasurer, will deliver his financial statement on July 29 :h. An old man named Ford was found dead in a hut at Lyndhursb with five bullet wounds in hie body. A earn of £l5O, which be had received in p»yment for land, was missiog. Received 8, 0 1 a.m. Mblboubnb, July 7. In the House-Sir fr. Barton stated there haff been no offioial proposal for the pwtition of the New Hebridss b»tnreen France and Australia. The Federal Government would resist Itoh a proposal; also, that the Government was considering the question of making it an indispensible csndition in the nest mail contracts for provision to be made for approved appliances for conveyance of perishable produoti, He announced that vhe terms of the Van* couver mail oontraot would be presented to Parliament before their Sail ratification. Received 8,1.5 a.m. Sydbiy, July 7. The Assembly is disoussing Mr Haynes' moii m that the messige despatched by the Government to the Home Government affirming the endorsement by the people of New South Wales of Mr Chamberlain's preferential trade proposal is a misinterpret*- ! tion of publio opinion. The State, British, and Frenoh lags were displayed aide by side at ths various Governors' residsnoes, and Federal and State offices in honour of President Loubet's visit to London.