AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8455, 4 June 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

REVENUE RETURNS. INCREASE OF £630,000. Received June 3, 9.4 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 3. The Federal Customs and excire revenue for the seven months ;J £630,000 larger than for the corresponding period last year. 1 r BIRTHDAY CUP. Received June 4, 1.2 a.m. ADELAIDE, June 3. The Birthday Cup resulted:—Cairngorn 1, Pius 2, True Scot 3. There were fourteen starters. Won by a length and a quarter. Time, 2min 40sec. Dividend, £l2 16s. PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. Received June 4, 1.21 a.m. BRISBANE, June 3. The Premiers resolved that, recognising the great importance of free intercourse between Australia and the Pacific Islands, the Conference emphatically reaffirms the principle that throughout the islands, whether under British or foreign control, local conditions of trade should prevail for traders of all nationalities and any regulations imposing disabilities on Australian traders should be annulled as soon as possible. It was also resolved to urge the British Government to press Germany for a prompt settlement of the Burns-Philp claim for expenditure involved in re-estab-lishing a treaty and trading rights in the Marshall and Caroline islands. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Received June 3, 11.53 p.m. SYDNEY, June 3. The Wesleyan Conference, on the motion of the Rev. Adamson, appointed a committee, consisting of two representatives of each State and New Zealand, to inquire into the desirability of establishing connexional fire insurance. Mr Robson, a lay representative from New South Wales, gave notice of a series of resolutions in favour of granting the Fijian Church a full share of self-government as an integral pai't of the Methodist Church of Australasia; that the necessary preliminary step? be taken to create a Fijian Conference at the General Conference of 1910; and that, as an interim provision, the District Synod shall have the right to elect to the New South Wales Conference, as representatives, two ministers and two laymen, Europeans or natives, who shall be eligible to go up for election at the next Conference.

THE PLAGUE. Received June 3, 9.4 a.m. BRISBANE, June 3. The plague patient at Ipswich has succumbed. LOST WAGES. Received June" 3. 98. a.m. SYDNEY, June 3. The Cobar strikers lest £14,000 in wage's.