AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 172, 11 July 1908, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NKW LMJloiiw-U. mslxTJiS ACi. Sydney, July JO.

[since I lie Industrial juispuies »ict came into lui'cc o.ily live unions Have registered. 'ilus pour response is niIriuiiLed to tin' La nor Councils anx i"iu|{ unions lo ignore tile Acl, and to rcsoti lo sli'iJuo tor lue setLlenieiu 01 disputes.

EISUKUMEM FUOM SCOTLAND. Sydney, July 10. Tiie .Stale rremier lias arranged assisted passages lor the lirst batch 01 Scots ItMieiincn to come to Australia. JAiilncr as-M,incc will be given on their arrival to the establishment of a lishhig industry.

YJCTOiI lAi\ KAILWAIS. Melbourne, July 10. The revenue from the Victorian railways for the past year was .CLiS.WO less limn lor one preceding year.

XUADE WITH EASTEISX ASJA. Sydney, July K. Owing to a falling-olt in trade Willi Eastern Asia, the China Navigation Company is withdrawing two out of its lour steamers trading to Australia.. STKIKK AT KALG'OOIILIE. Kalgoorlio, July 10. A strike of employees of the lirewood companies which supply the mines has had a serious cil'ect. Several of the mines have ceased work. TASMANU.V POLITICS. i ~ llolart, July 10.

The Tasuianian Premier, in a policy Speech, said the time had come ior all the States to make a stand against encroachments by the Federal (iovcnimeut. lie foreshadowed nn improved land tax; also the pnicing of railways under one commissioner, Local option, he said, would bo the lirst measure dealt willl. He made no threai, against the Upper House, but sum ilhal, ,if the ho]ies ,of passing tilicl legislation which they desired were not fulfilled, Ministers would have to seriously consider the position.