AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8444, 17 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COMMONWEALTH .AND STATE.

| ißeeeived May 16,10.21. a.m. ! SYDNEY, .May 16. i The Slate Premier, Mr J. H. Car- ': r,uthers, in .a sjpeech atMolong, said ! thathefore federation was effected they believed they could trust the i| other States, hut they had now dis- \ covered their .error. The Federal ! Parliament had given treatment to ; New South Wales which _ would not i be given to a*dog un.a.chain.

; BIG PRICES mR [STUD .SHEEP. Received May 16, 10.21 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 16. Extensive purchases of stud sheep have been made by a visitor from Uruguay. He gave a thousand guineas apiece for several merino rams, while ewes averaged 120 guineas each. STRIKE OF COPPER MLNE EMPLOYEES. t Received May 17, 12.9 ia.an. .SYDNEY,May 16. All the copper mines in tlie <Cobar district are practically idle, owing to the strike of the employees for hicrher wages and preference to Unionists. NEW ZEALAND TINNED MEAT. Receved May 16, 10.21 a.m. \ SYDNEY, May 16. Major Long, of the British War Office, states that the tinned moat industry of New is too small to permit of extensive business being done. MT. LYELL COMPANY. Received May 17, 12.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 16. The Mount Lyell Company returns for the half-year ' show a record net • profit of £264,935. A dividend of Is 3d with a bonus of 2s 3d parshare has been declared, absorbing £210,000.