AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SHORTAGE OF STEEL. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, April 29. The iron trades sent a deputation to Mr. Gardiner pointing out the grave situation owing to the shortage of steel. They asked permission to import material and suggested that the Government should establish works here. Mr. Gardiner promised Cabinet consideration of the matter.
A CHINESE MURDERED Sydney, April 29. One of the Chinese victims of the Auburn robbery lias succumbed. (On April 21 a masked man walked in at the open window of a home at Auburn occupied by tour Chinese, and, without warning, shot one of the Chinese with a revolver. He then entered the house and shot another who was attracted by the shot, walked into an adjoining room, shot the third Chinese, and locked the fourth in the bedroom. After ransacking their pockets he departed, leaving no clue. Two of the Chinese were seriously wounded.)
ACTION OF CAUCUS. Sydney, April 28. The caucus agreed to the delegation which is placing the position before the Labor Conference, SIR RIDER HAGGARD'S SCHEME. Sydney. April 20. At a luncheon at the Colonial Institute, Sir 11. Rider Haggard referred to the urgent necessity of land settlement to keep the Empire intact. He appealed to Australia to got her share of after-the-war immigrants and prevent the United States mopping them up.
AM.P. SOCIETY. Sydney, April 28. At the annual meeting of the A.M.iP. Society the report was adopted. The directors re-elected the Hon. C. J. Johnston as New Zealand representative. He -va* iinable to be present, owing to his Parliamentary duties, hut the chairman stated that he had been requested by the local board to intimate that never in its history had the Dominion been more .prosperous or in a more satisfactory financial position. The new business for the year was the largest in the history of the branch. That investments were in a satisfactory condition >»' as evidenced by the fact that not a penny of interest was outstanding at the end of the year.
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