COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2720, 27 January 1910, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

BOUND FOR THE DOMINION. UNITfID Pftcsa Association —Goptuiciiit SYDNEY, Jan. 26. Ten moose from Canada, en route to New Zealand, arrived in excellent- condition. KILLED BY A SHARK. A lad named Clulow, bathing near a jetty at Newcastle, had a leg and : a hand bitten off by a shark, and succumbed later. TO FLOAT AUSTRALIAN LOANS. MELBOURNE, Jan. 26. Representatives of the Australian Financial Institutions in London conferred with Mr Deakin, Premier of the Commonwealth, and Sir George Reid, with the view of getting the Government to utilise the colonial banks in London to float and manage Australian loans. The conference was confidential. HEROISM RECOGNISED. The State Government presented Joseph Davis, of Bendigo, with an Edward medal of the first class awards by the King for heroically rescuing his mate from an impending explosion. LORD KITCHENER - ON RAILWAY POLICY. PERTH, Jan. 26. Lord Kitchener, speaking at a State banquet, said he had almost gone round Australia. It seemed to him that one of the great needs was a systematic statesmanlike railway extension of trunk lines, opening up and developing the fertile interior. It would stimulate population and increase the means of defence. At present the Australian expenditure on railway construction appeared spasmodic, as well as unduly influenced by purely local conditions.