AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1052, 19 September 1901, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Received Sept. 18, 5.42 p.m,) JAPAN AND THE COMMONWEALTH. Sydney, September 18. The Japanese Consul has protested to Mr Barton against the Immigration Restriction Bill, on the ground that the Japanese belong to an Empire whose standard of civilisation is so much higher than those the Bill proposes to include, that it is a reproach to include them He asked that they either be exempted nr placed on the same footing as Europeans. GRUESOME VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. Melbourne, September 12. The body of an old man named, Dixon, with his head battered and several stabs in the body, has been found in a hut at Castlemaine. The wife has been arrested. They had been drinking together. BOER MAUSERS FOR ADELAIDE CADETS. Adelaide, ' September 18. In response to a request made some time ago, the Adelaide cadet corps has received from Lord Kitchener two hundred Mauser rifles captured from the Boers. WEST KALIAN BULLION. Perth, September 18. The steamer Rome took cold bullion valued at £521,000 for London. It is & record for the State. DESTRUCTION OF A BOOT FACTORY. Melbourne, September 18. The damage in Marshall’s fire is estimated at about £2O 000. It is covered by insurance. Thiee hundred employees are rendered idle LAUNCH OF a STEAMER FOR NEW ZEALAND. Sydney, September 18. She steamer Mokau, of 150 tens carrying capacity, built to the order of the Mokau Coal Company, has been launched from Drake's yards, Balmain. TIED HOUSES IN SYDNEY. Sydney, September 18. The report of the Committee appointed to inqure into the tied housed question has been tabled in the Assembly. It generally condemns the system and states ninety per cent of the public houses in Sydney and suburbs are tied. It alleges Sunday trading, subletting bars and other evils of the trade, are largely due to the system.