AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 3120, 20 January 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

-NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS. Received Jan. 10, 5.10 p.m. Sydney, ounuary 19. Iho Bowling Association ofttcially welcomes the New Zealand bowlers.

MINERS IDLE. Sydney, January 18, J rhc secretary of the BroJcej) pill Miners' Association advises that tbjpe# thousand miners are idle there. Het warns workers against going there.

A BOUNDARY DISPUTE. Adelaide, January 18. , At a conference between Price, of .South Australia, and Premier Bent, of Victoria, th« long-standing dispute regarding the border territory? was settled. The territory involved, has a value of £250,000?" Victoria undertakes to pay South Australia halfthis amount, and in return assumes unsdisputed po.ssession of the territory, which she has held and administered -for a long time. ij ;

TRADE WITH THE EAST. Sydney, January 18J ', A memorial has been sent by th and flour merchants to the Styiffe*; 1 Premier. Mr Wade, asking for a Jj nine .subsidy to assist the development IJ of trade with the East. The Premier, in <1 reply, has stated that no subsidy couldi j be granted to the Bnrns-Philp jine he- I eiuse it is no part of the function of the Oovcmment to protect shipping tow-? panics against competition. ' : *

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