AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8368, 27 February 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

NEW SOUTH WALES RUGBY UNION. INVITATION TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM. ROUGH AND UNSPORTSMANLIKE PLAY. Received Last Night, 11.49 o'clock. SYDNEY, February 26. The Rugby Union has decided to invite the South African team to visit Australia next year. On the question of rough and unsportsmanlike play it was decided to send the following recommendations to other Unions:—"That the New Zealand and Queensland Rugby Unions be asked to suggest and agree to a common course of action where representative and intercolonial players are ordered off the field; that the inquiry be made by the Union under whose jurisdiction the match was played; that the Union holding the inquiry recommend to the Union controlling players found guilty of misconduct to punish the case as it deserves ; that players adjudged guilty be disqualified during the unexpired term of a visiting team; that pending the inquiry players be disqualified."

HEAT WAVE. Received February 26, 9.48 a.m. ADELAIDE, February 26. The weather is very hot. The temperature in the shade yesterday was 104. MELBOURNE, February 26. A heat wave is passing over the State. The thermometer registered 103 in the city yesterday. I ' LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION. Received February 26, 9.48 a.m. MELBOURNE, February 26. Five Labour members of the Federal Parliament waited on Mr Deakin and protested against the issue of any more permits for European labourers for Queensland. They said there was plenty of white labour now available.

Mr Deakin replied that he would not issue any more permits until he saw how the immigration scheme of Mr Kidston (the Premier of Queensland) progressed. BRISBANE, February 26.

The Govrenment has arranged with the Orient Company to bring out about 200 immigrants per fortnight, starting in May. Those with a capital of £SO will receive passages at £5 each. Agri- | cultural labourers and their families are brought out free. Cane-growers and farmers applying for labourers will have to pay the Labour Bureau £5 apiece. As this later provision brings the men within the scope,of the law as affecting importation of contract labour, correspondence is passing between the Government and Mr Deakin on the point. Mr Deakin, in a guarded reply, expressed the hope that he would be able to meet the wishes of Queensland. SYDNEY WCOL SALES. Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock. SYDNEY. February 26. At the wool sales late prices were maintained. Scoured wool was in strong demand. SHIPPING. Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock. NEWCASTLE, February 26. Sailed —Waipori for New Zealand"