AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8127, 28 April 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

collision at sea. both vessels considerably Damaged. Reoeived April 27, 10,30 p.m. MELBOURNE, April 27.

Tbe steamer Aramac, from Sydney, with sixty passengers on board, collided with the Prenon barque Nantes, anchored off Cape Sound, and sheltering from a heavy gale. Both vessels were considerably damaged, though insufficient to endanger their safety. '

Tbe Aramao came on to Melbourne.

A STORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES. - WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION. A WOMAN KILLED. Reoeived April 27 10.13 p.m. SYDNEY, April 27. A strong westerly gale blew all day but has now ceased. Rough seas are running and the tbipping is sheltering. ' The storm was especially severe on the South Coast, and at Bellambi a number of bouses oollapsed and many were damaged.

The roof of a shed was lifted bodily off a building and orusbed a Mrs Fleming to death. Woodoona, Bulli, Clifton, and other townships in tbe district report widespread destruction. . Coaling operations have been stopped owing to the rough sea.

SPEECH BY THIS FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER. MR REID AN IMPOSSIBLE ALLY. Received April 28, 12.8 a.m. MELBOURNE, Apxil 27. \ The Hon. A. Deakin, Federal Prime Minister, speaking at Oamperdown, stated that the .next election would be a tight for Australian industries from first to last. Mr Q. H. Reid was an impossible ally. The most important questions to be dealt with during the coming session would be the fiscal proposals and matters relating to defenoe. 11 was impossible to deal with social legislation while the Australian markets were ooen to all kinds of unfair competition.