AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8135, 9 May 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE RABBIT INDUSTRY. Received May 7, 10.8 a.m. MELBuURNE, May 7. A deputation of rabbit exporters and others interested in the trade have protested to Hon. A. Deakin, Federal Premier, against the Dr. Danysz experiments. They declared rabbits are good and'oheap food, and the introduction of the germ might imperil or ruin tho rabbit trade which, in Victoria alone, gave employment to five thousand, while it was worth nearly a million to Australia. • Mr Deakin advised the deputation to suggest to the -experts the conditions under which it was considered the tests Bhould be made. RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS' TROUBLE. v Received May 8, 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, May 8. The Daily Telegraph states in regard to the Railway Commissioners' difficulty that'll is Understood Mr Olliver will be asked to resign and a remuneration offered to him. Mr Fehon will probably retire, Hud Mr Kirkoaldie and another act as Deputy Commissioners to the Chief Commissionfir, who ie to be obtained from England. The Telegraph adds that an amending Bill will probably be introduced next session giving the Chief Commissioner special powers, A MAN SHOOTS HIS WIFE AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE. Received May 9, 1.15 a.m. (SYDNEY, May 8. William Brooks, who had just been released after serving a lengthy sentence in prison, visited his wife, who was residing at a hotel at Manly, and shot her. He then shot himself. He was in the act of firing, at the police when he dropped dead from the self-inflicted wound. The woman is in a critical condition. A STEAMER DRIFTS FOR A WEEK. Reoeived May 8, 9.55 a.m. PERTH, May 8. The steamer Madura, not Matora, bound from Durban to Bunbury, has put in here. She broke one of the intermediate lengths of her shafts three weeks ago, when 1,700 miles from Fremantle. The steamer drifted a week while temporary repairs were made.

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