AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8536, 17 September 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COLONIAL DEFENCE. i Received September 16 8.43 a.m. MELBOURNE, September 16. When Mr Deakin (the Federal Premier) returns to Parliament lie intends to make an announcement with regard to immediate steps to be taken to construct an Australian navy. If the difference between the cost of construction in England and Australia is not unreasonable, Parliament will be asked to sanction a system of warship construction by private enterprise under Government supervision.

A SENATE ELECTION. REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT. Received September 16, 10.45 .m. ADELAIDE, September 16., A remarkable development has occurred in connection with the Senate election for the Angas division, in which Mr Vardon's seat was declared vacant. Much hinged on the statement that a parcel of voting papers had been accidentally burnt. The papers have new been discovered, and the Federal Attorney-General his been consulted on the position. (The High Court of Australia last month refused Mr Joseph Vardon's application for a writ of mandamus to compel the Governor of South Austarlia to cause a writ to issue for a fresh election of a senator by the people. Mr Vardon secured the seat at the poll, but Mr Justice Barton, sitting as a Court of Disputed Returns, declared the election to be void, on account of irregularities by a returning officer, and later, at a joint sitting of both houses of the South Australian .Legislature, Mr O'Loghlin was selected to fill the vacancy.)