AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8145, 21 May 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MRSEDDON'S VISIT. Received May 20, 10.26 a.m. SYDNEY, May 19. The Government to day entertained Mr Seddon on a trip round the harbour, including a visit to the training ship Sobraon. To-night he dined with the State Governor, and will leave on Monday for Melbourne. Mr Seddon proposes to extend his visit to Adelaide, subsequently returning to Melbourne: DIRECT SERVICE WITH THE EAST. Received May 20, 5.28 p.m. SYDNEY, May 20. Mr Seddon, yesterday, had an interview with the Japanese Consul relative to the establishment of a direct service with the East. The Consul was ruoh pleased at the Government's intended aotion. A fortnightly service is proposed between New Zealand, Singapore, Hongkong, Java and Japan. The idea is favourably received in commercial oircles here. DISSATISFIED AUSTRALIANS. RETURN FROM SOUTH AFRICA. WAGES LOW AND LIVING EXPENSIVE. < PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT. Received May 20, 10.26 a.m. ADELAIDE, May 19. Another contingent of dissatisfied Australian artisans and tradesmen, who proceeded to South Africa at the cessation of the late Boer war, have returned. They wera bitterly dissappointed. Wages are low, and living is expensive, while everywhere the Australians were blackguarded and bad no peace of mind night or day. It was practically impossible to obtain employment for th<* merest pittance. ESTIMATED COST OF VESSELS. Received May 20, 10.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 19. The Labour members of the Shipping Commission regard the arrangement made by the New Zealand Government for the shipment of Government goods by the West of England service as as trong argument in favour of the establishment of a Federal Government-owned line of steamers to convey mails to and from England. A COMMONWEALTH LINE OF STEAMERS. Received May 21, 1.12 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 20. As the result of enquiries in London, Mr T. A. Coghlan, Agent-Gene-ral for New South Wales, has been informed that the Federal Mail Services Commission estimated that the cost of a' steamer of the type of the Mongolia or Macedonia, pro r vided with facilities for perishable products, would range from $335,000 for a sixteen-knot vessel, to £466,000 for a twenty-knot steamer, while the additional cost if fitted with turbine machinery would range from £2,000 to £5,000 according to speed. The oost of a flrst-clasa intermediate steamer, which would be used mainly for oargo and perishable goods, would range from £282,000 for a fourteen-knot vessel to £311,000 for a sixteen-knot vessel. The information is apropos the proposal to establish a Commonwealth line of seamers. THE CRICKET MUDDLE. Received May 21, 12,58 a.m. SYDNEY, May 20. It is reported from Melbourne that a wire had been received theieon Friday night stating that the Sydney players had decided to continue to support the Melbourne Cricket Club. Information obtain - able in Sydney bears out the statement, STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. SYDNEY, May 19. The High Court, dealing with an appeal from a deoision of the lower court, that a bank was barred by the Statute of Limitations from the right of aotion against the guarantors of a loan to finance a corporation, deoided that, having regard to the main object of the guarantee, it could only be held as imparting an obligation that whenever a debtor failed to pay any part of the debt on demand, the guarantors have to pay that portion, but that' the Statute of Limitations did not begin to run' against guarantors for the whole debt at that time. MURDER NEAR DURBAN. SYDNEY, May 19. South Afrioa newspapers report the murder, last month, of Herbert Hynes, of Sydney, near Durban. It i&'supposed that while in a maudlin condition he was stunned and beaten to death. A rioksha puller has been arretted on suspicion. Some of the deoeased'a belongings were found in bis possession. Hynes was a horse-trainer in the employ of W. N. Willis.

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