AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 26 April 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY. Reoeived April 25, 11.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 25. Mr Keir Hardie, in a letter to the deputy leader of the Federal Labour party, sajs the object of the visit of the British Labour members of Parliament is not to take sides either for or against Protection, but ro exchange views and promote a good relationship based on a thorough understanding of j,eaoh other's position. The writer adds that it is possible the visit of the deputation will have to be postponed, as there is a strong probability of an autumn session of Parliament. THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. Received April 25, 10.33 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 25. At the university celebrations a letter was read from the President of the Tokio University, in whioh the writer expressed gratification with the Anglo Japanese alliance, and referred to the attempts made to segregate men by "fears and prejudices which affront the intelligence of the thoughtful while £they fill the minds of the ignorant with unworthy fears of impossible perils." A GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME Received April 26, 12.32 a.m. SYDNEY, April 25. The Minister of Works has opened a canal conveying the water from the Murrumbidgee River to Yanoo station, the first section of the great irrigation scheme. ' ■ ——a"