AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PROPOSED NEW DUTIES.

SYDNEY, September 22,

It is staled that the Con" uul-General has been instructed by cable to represent to the Common* wealth Government in a most friendly way that the announcement of the proposed new surtax on foreign goods has teen received in commercial circles in Germany with anxiety and indignation, and that the German Government, while deprecating any attempt to influence the policy of the Commonwealth, fears it may be compelled to take measures that would have the effect of interfering with the mutual commercial relations between Germany and Australia. _____ ( ' AUSTRALIAN SEA FORCE. . MELBOURNE, September 22. Captain Cresswell has submitted an amended scheme for an Australian sea force. He states that there could not be a better means of , initiating a policy than by a torpedo defence scname, providing sixteen destroyers of the river olasa type, and four first-class torpedo boats, involving an espenditure of £1,850,000. Received September 23, 4.44 p.m. LONDON, September 22. Lord Brassey, presiding at the inaugural dinner of the Grocers* Exhibition said that it was useless for the Motherland to expect the daughter States to subsidise the Imperial Navy. ;Auatralia desired an Australian Navy remaining in local waters mutinies of peace, and plaaed at the Empire's service in wartime. Australia ough* to begin with a small, effioient permanent force of men backed by strong, well-trained reserves, and ought at first only to boiild destroyers ana submarines. As the naval organisation expanded the Motherland could supply either by gift or loan cruisers and combatant vessels from the Home reserve. A BILL. REJECTED. MELBOURNE, September 22. A Bill authorising a survey of the Transcontinental line from Port Augusta tc Kalgoorlie was thrown out by the Federal Senate on the second reading by one vote. SENSaTION AT ADELAIDE. ADELAIDE, September 22. Mr Tucker, a member of the House of Assembly, and four times Mayor of Port Adelaide, was arrested last sight in connectiua with alleged Customs frauds. A COLLISION. SYDNEY, September 22. The barque Konigsbyrd, while entering Wollongong to load for New Zealand, collided with the steamer Bega. The latter's wheel-house was carried away. The barque escaped broken jibboom. THE MINING TROUBLE. SYDNEY, September 22. Praotioally all the miners' lodges have accepted the new terms agreed upon in settlement of the late dispute. CYCLING. Received September 22, 6.44 p.m. , MELBOURNE, September 22. The Warrnambool to Melbourne road race resulted' D. Riley 1 Birch (New Zealand) ... 2 Huram (New Zealand)... 3 The winner's time was Bhrs 58min 55seo. Meherten (New Zealand) did the fastest time (Bhrs 53min). Received September 22, 6.36 p.m. SYDNEY, September 22. The Goalburn-Sydney road race was won by Fowler, with Butler second.