AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 194, 6 August 1908, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT. 1 Melbourne, August 5. When the Federal Premier, Mr. A. Deakin, was in London, Mr Israel Zangwill, the novelist (who has just announced a scheme for settling a colony of Jews in America) approached him i with a proposal for establishing a jew- i ish settlement in the Commonwealth. < Mr. Zangwill stipulated that the set- : tiers must have liberty make their own laws. Mr. Deakin then pointed out that the stipulation was impracticable, as to grant it was practically to consent to the creation of an autonomous State. He invited Mr. Zangwill to submit a practical scheme, but he has not since heard from him. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING. Sydney, August 5. The New South Wales Farmers' Conference decided to support the compulsory training of young men for defence purposes. PIGEONS FOR WAR PURPOSES. Melbourne, August 5. 'Hie Federal Minister of Defence intends to include in the estimates a | sum to promote the breeding of the | best types of homing pigeons for defence purposes. i FASHION AND THE KILLING OF BIRDS. i Melbourne, August 5. ! The Federal Government has promN- ! Ed to take action to prohibit the nn- ' portation and exportation of certain . skins and plumage of birds in order to s prevent the wholesale destruction of 1 birds at the call of fashion.