AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 204, 7 December 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE PAPANJJI INCIDENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, December 6. The Papanui sailed without a pilot. She took several hours to negotiate her way out of the port, and was watched by an interested crowd. The Papanui's destination is Japan. The Marine Board refused to allow a pilot to take out the vessel. The State Premier declares that in his opinion the vessel is not seaworthy. No marine board in the world would have granted her a certificate, but as the State had no gunboat handy he could not stop her departure. The Philippino crew being subjects of the United States, he thought that as their safety was involved some action might have been taken by the representative of America. MINERS ON STRIKE. Sydney, December 0. By a strike at Ahermain colliery, owing to a dispute as to payment for pillars, 650 men are rendered idle. A DOUBLE SUICIDE. Perth, December 6. Two brothers named Toe were found dead on the sandhills with a bottle of chloroform alongside them. It is supposed to be a case of double suicide. BIG HAILSTONES. Sydney, December 6.

In a hailstorm at Murwillumbali lumps of ice as big as tea cups fell, causing considerable damage. JEALOUS WOMAN'S REVENGE. Perth, December 6. The French woman Dufaur has died of bullet wounds inflicted by the Japanese Sotto, with whom she was living, as the outcome of jealousy. LUMPERS ARE PARTICULAR. Adelaide, December 6. The lumpers on the steamer Gracy Hus have struck against unloading, a cargo of Java sugar because, the bags are above the prescribed weight.