AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 236, 2 November 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

■ —■ • f FIR PKXSS ASSOCIATION. ' Srasmr, October 31. • Two daring sticking up cases are j reported from the suburbs. Two armed < men at Auburn brutally maltreated ] and robbed a man, and exchanged shots with the police. One was captured. ' The following day two marked rob- < hers bailed up and robbed a man in ' North Sydney. ' Mklboubnb, October 30. Mr Deakin, dealing with the popu- < lation question, said that during Mr i Beid's five years term of office .New j South Wales lost 1882 persons, while i New Zealand, a protective State, aDd a radical State, and, accordiog to 6ome people, necessarily driving capital away, and going headlong to ruin, gained 13,700. In ten years little New Zealand gained more population than the i whole of Australia. < Melbjuenk, October 31. ' The report of the Royal OominisHion, recommending a federal booui for the '' iron and steel industries, was only e-r-'' ried on the cashing vo:e of Mr Kiuga ton, the chairman. The minority report declares the evidence failed to show any commercial necessity for bonus h. Beceive 1,914 a.m. Sydney, October 31. Alfred Symons was remanded at Lyttelton on a charge of alleged theft j of goods. \ The second man supposed to be coa- i cerned in the Auburn sticking-up case; has been anested with a fully loaded ' revolver in his possession. 1 2. 11 a.m. J Sydnkt, November 1. I Mr Jackfon, G'vernor of Fiji, who is visiting Sydney, returns to his, colony to-morrow. He speaks opti-1 mi-ticallv of tbe condition and prospects f Fiji. His personal opinion is . that the movement for federation with New Zealand is dead. He confirms the deßial of the rumour tbat any scheme is ifloat for the acquisition by ■ Germany of Tonga. j