AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8129, 1 May 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

HEAVY GALES AT SEA. Received April 30, 11.6 a.m. SIDNEY, April 30. The boisterous weather conditions have abated and most of the overdue vessels are arriving. They report rough experiences. The Kale was particularly severe iu the neighbourhood of Gabo. The Wakatipu, bound from Launceston, had fifty hours of it. The decks were swept with heavy seas and some of the deck fittings were carried away, the cabin being also flooded. The Mahinapua took seventy-two hours between Hobarfc andStrahan, ordinarily a twenty-hour trip. The Whangape, from Picton, covered forty-nine miles in twenty-four hours. She received no damage.

v A POLITICAL JUBILEE. Received April 30, 11.6 a.m. SYDNEY* April 30. The jubilee of the first Parliament under responsible government in New South Wales will be celebrated on the 22nd May. There remains no single living member. There are only two officials alive who had any connection with it. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Received April 30, 11.11 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 30. A boy named Vauahan, fifteen years of age.eonstructed an acetylene gas generator ov»t of two oil drums. He was testing the apparatus; when an explosion and the boy was killed. TASMANIAN APPLE SEASON. Receiveil April 30, 11.30 a.m. HOB ART, April 30. The apple season is now practically closed. Sixty-two thousand oases were shipped to England, being 191,000 oases l°ss than last season. REPORT OP COMPTROLLER- " GENERAL OF PRISONS. Received May 1, 12.55 a.m. SIDNEY, April 30. The report of the OomptrollerQeueral of prisons to December 31st last shows a decrease in the number of prisoners. The report further states that it was satisfactory to note that orime was not increasing within the Commonwealth. From the figures received from various States and New Zealand it is shown that New Zealand, is the only part of Australasia where there has been an increase in the gaol popu lation.

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