AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8216, 21 August 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BRISBANE TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

Received August 20, 9.15 a.m. BRISBANE, August 20. Parser, the New Zealand tennis player, played with great success at the Brisbane tournament, winning every set in the singles, beatPookley snd Doust, and annexing the oup.

QUEENSLAND'S DISABILITIES

Received August 20. 9.43 a.m. BRISBANE, August 20. A lengthy memorandum has been forwarded by the Mayor to the local authorities of the State, emphasising the disabilities suffered by ltnd as the result of federation, and appealing to Queenslanders to take up the tank of dissolving the anion.

NEW ZEALAND RACEHORSES.

Received August 21, 1.10 a.m. SYDNEY, August 20. Rumours are ourrent that lsolt's throat affection causes the mare to whistle worse thau ever. Solution came into the Metropolitan Handicap wagering to-day, when a commission of £!,500 was executed at 100 to 6.

PERfc ERENTIAL AGREEMENT,

Received August 21, 1,10 a.ixu MELBOURNE, August 20. Communications which have passed between Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon. A. Deakin have resulted in a complete agreement witd respect to the reciprocal tariff and preference arrangement, and ratifies the conferences between Ithe late Mr Seddon and the Hon. A. Deakin and Sir William Lyne. The agreement wi'.l be laid onthe r table of the Houses of both countries simultaneously on August 28th. The usual resolution will be at once moved, and the / preferences beoorce operative forthwith.