AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8204, 7 August 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A JEALOUS WIFE. MURDERS HER HUSBAND. Received August 6, 10.35 a.m. ADELAIDE, August 6. A woman uarned Ada Hassett haa been arrested for the murder of her huaband, who was found dead in bed with his head mutilated by blows from an axe. The woman has confessed. The supposed cause ia jealcsy. AUSTRALIAN FINANCES. Reoeived August 6, 10.38 a,m. MELBOURNE, August 6. A Credit Fonoier loan uf £IOO,OOO at 3)£ per cent, has baeu announced at a minimum of 98, with a ourrenoy of eleven and a half years. Mr Bent, the State Premier, states that half a million surplus has been shipped to England to pay off borrowed money. The Treasurer ia negotiating as regards the isHue of a four-million conversion loan. The Savings Bank commissioners have agreed to underwrite a two millions par loan. Wheu issued will bear interest at 3J4 per cent,, and will be used to pay off a per oent loan, THE EFFECT OF ADVERTISING. Keoeived August 6, 10.38 p.m. SYDNEY, August 6, A leading manufacturer, who has just returned from America, says he was surprised to And that mi»ny Americans regarded Australia as part and parcel of New Zealand. He attributes this to the faot that Australia has neglected to advertise herself, whereas wberovei oiie went advertisements describing New Zealand as a tourist resort and place for settlers, were to be seeo. A heavy percentage of Americans, adds the manufacturer, regard Sydney and Melbourne as owned and controlled by New Zealand. / : AN ACCIDENT IN A MINE. Reoeived August 6, 10.37 a.m. SYDNEY, August 6. A fall of earth in the Chesney Mine at Cobar resulted in one man being killed, another had his foot cut off, and a third was badly hurt. / ■ A SHELL CRASHES THROUGH A CARPENTER'S SHOP. Received August 7, 1.5 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 6. While the artillery were practising at Queenscliffe a shell ricoohetted across the bay, and crashed through a carpenter's shop at the quarantine station, doing oonsiderable damage. No one was injured. ANTI-GAMBLING CRUSADE. • Reoeived August <6, 11.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 6. A pastoral letter was read in all the Anglican churches yesterday urging members to refrain from gambling in every form, including' raffles at bazaars. A further step was also taken in providing antigambling pledges, which members were invited to sign. (A Melbourne paper stated last week that among the results of the Flemington tragedy, on July ilth, is a movement in Melbourne under the leadership of Archbishop Clare, to enable people to express their abhorrence of the evil fruits of gambling. He proposes to establish at once an anti gambling pledge, and to invite people as widely as possible, especially through the clergy and the schools, to sign a pledge which will be in these words:- "I promise never to bet, never to play games for money, and to discountenance every form of gambling by all means iu my power." The Archbishop and his brother bishops propose to issue a pastoral letter for uoo in the Diocese of Viutoria on the same subject. A united move is also being made by the churches to have a atop put to ' the granting of a public holiday on Melbourne Cup day. A largely 1 siguad petition will he presented to , the Government).