THE BUTTER TRADE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8117, 11 April 1906, Page 5

THE BUTTER TRADE.

Received April 10, 10.28 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 10. The butter trade is exercised over a consignment received by a local firm from Queensland. The boxes outside were marked with a Queensland i'aotory brand and tbo Government scamp, but inaide was the brand of a well-known Victorian factory. The suggestion is that the consignment was intended for some other market, and war; sont to Melbourne by mistake. DEFEN G l'j 2.1 A ITERS. "AUSIRALIA IN A POSITION TO MEET ANY FOE." Receiver At^riJ 10, 10 p.m. BRISBANE, April 10. Senator Playford, speaking on Defence matters, said that he believed Australia was in a -position to meet any probable foe. In a short time they would have the finest artillery in the kuown world and the finest weapons invented. He hooed no [fooliah scares would be raked, which would commit the country to an enormous expense. THE SYDNEY MINT. Received Apryl 30, 9.47 p.m. SYDNEY, April 10. The Government have discovered that the site of the Sydney mint is not, as was supposed, Imperial property. They have offered the Imperial authorities another site, and are proposing to demolish the mine and erect law courts oa the land.