AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 30 June 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE EXTRADITION OF WILLIS. CHARGE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. Received June 29, 10.11 a.m. SYDNEY, June 29. During tbe censure debate wtoiob is proceeding in the State Parliament, the Attorney-General, the Hon. O. G. Wade, effectively replied to tbe charge that tbe Government had pursued a policy of masterly inactivity in bringing W. N. Willis back to Australia. He showed that every legal effort had been made to seoure the extradition of Willis at the earliest moment. MAIL SERVICE NEGOTIATIONS. HAS A HITCH OCCURRED? Reoeived June 29, 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 29. Tbe feeling is growing that a bitoh has occurred in the negotiations relating to the federal mail service. Tbe Government now exDlains that it is waiting a return from the Federal Postmaster General. A MINISTER'S MISDEEDS. Received June 29, 10.30 a.m. PERTH, June 29. The Methodist Synod has decided to recommend the expulsion from tbe church of the Rev. James, who recently left for Vancouver under peculiar ciroumstanoes; also to send ,out a ciroular advising the churohes in America and Canada of his misdeeds. I . A FIGHT ON A STEAMER. THREE GREEKS INJURED. Received June 29, 10.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 29. During a fight among several of tbe crew of the steamer Devon, .Brady, a Sydney resident, "stretched out" three Greeks, one of whom was seriously injured. COLLIEKS' DISPUTE. WHEELERS ON STRIKE. Received June 29, 10.30 a.m. . SYDNEY, June 29. Thejwheelers in the Stookton mine have struck. The situation has become grave, aid there are fears of a general j strike. i | MOUNT LYELL COMPANY. Received June 29, 10.39 a.m. MELBOUPNE, June 29. The Mount Lyell returns for the I oeriod tetween May 24th and June 20th sbow that 30,400 ions were | treated together with 1,563 tons of purchased ore. The converters produced 719tons*of blister copper containing §7ll tons of copper, 53,163 ounces of silver and 1,827 ounces of gold.