AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7944, 19 January 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RECIPROCITY WITH NEW ZEALAND. , FAVOURED BY MANUFACTURERS. LAUNCESTON, Jan. 18. At the Manufacturers' Conference resolutions were adopted favouring revision of the tariff with a view of affording adequate protection to industries, a bonus for the manufacture of iron, and reoiprooa,l tariffs with New Zealand and South Africa, and opposing nationalisation of any producing or manufacturing interests, and any party or individual supporting Socialism. POPULATION STATISTICS. SYDNEY, January 18. The population of Queensland at the end of the year was 506,935; South Australia, 372,768; Western Australia, 247,072; Tasmania, 178,627. uKAJN-HANDLERS DISPUTE. SYDNEY. January 18. A number of non-unionists have been engaged to replace the grainhandlers in Darling Harbour. Only one stevedore paid the advanced rates demanded by the unionists, who remain firm. » THE FEDERAL CAPITAL SITE. SYDNEY, January 18. At the meeting held in the Town Hall last evening to protest against the treatment of New South Wales by the Federal Government in regard to the capital site and other questions, the Lord Mayor soou'od any idea of secession. Other speakers took a jlmilar attitude. Many representative citizens were present.