AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8134, 8 May 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TASMANIA'S AGENT-GENERAL. Received May 7, 10 a.m. HOBART, May 7. Mr Dobson's appointment as Agent General has been extended to the end of the year. "* MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION. Received May 7, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 7. A May Day procession and demonstration on the Yarra hanks attracted a large crowd of people. A rowdy clement oaused some disturbance by seizing and destroying some of the more pronounced banners. Three men were af rested. POTATO GRUB. Received May 7, 8.30 a.m. SYDJNEY, May 7. The Government Entomologist states that the potato grub is very bad all over New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria. SCULLING. Received May 7, 8.19 a.m. PERTH, May 7. Thirty thousand people witnessed the sculling races. Avous (Victoria) won the Interstate champion soulls.

NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Received May 7, 8.19 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 7. The new postal arrangements provide that if letters, postcards, and such articles do not boar a stamp on the right-hand upper corner of the address side they will be rogarded as unstamped and be surcharged. DRY WEATHER IN VICTORIA. AFFECTING SEEDING OPERATIONS. Received May 7, 9.30 p.m. MELBOURNE, May 7, The protracted spell of dry weather is affecting seeding operations in the leading cereal districts. It is expected that the area sown will show no increase on the previous season. i ————— THE BARQUE TALOA. SEVERAL OF THE CREW STRICKEN WITH FEVER. Received May 8, 12.25 a.m. SYDNEY. May 7. The barque Talca has arrived, after being one hundred and four days out from Iquique. Several of the crow were stricken with typhoid shortly after leaving and two died. Owing to the boisterous weathei*, and being short-handed, the voyage was protracted. Provisions ran low, though they were not exhausted.