AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8263, 17 October 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FATHER AND SON DROWNED. Received October 16, 9.23 a.m. MELBOURNE, October 16. A farmer, named Mansfield, accompanied by bis son' and a boy, named Hill, who were driving a buggy across a flooded oreek at Keitor (10 miles west of were washed away. Mansfield and his eon were drowned, but the lad Hill was saved by clinging to the rope by which he was leading an extra horse, the latter swimming ashore. MR RAMSAY MACDONA^D. Received October 16, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, October 16. " The Sydney Political Labour League welcomed Mr Ramsay MacDonald, the, British Parliamentary Labour delegate. Speaking on the British labour movement, Me MaolJonald paid a tribute to the valuable lesson taught by Australian labourites. lu tracing the growth of the industrial system in England, he said the plutocracy they were fighting was not merely the rich class, but the vulgar class who degraded everything they touched; whosd art was merely ostentatioun vulgarity, whose literature was degrading, whose commercial morality was sapping the Chris* tian conscience, and whose religion was largely cant, humbug and makebelieve. He pitied the miserable plutocrats, whose lives were barren of everything that made life real, even more than he pitied the men and women in the workhouses. It was not poverty of pounds, shillings and pence that the Labour Party was fighting, but the poverty of mind, soul and conscience. 'lhe speaker maintained that the Labour Party in every country was standing for individualism, not against individualism; for liberty, ' not against it. CYCLONE AT GRAFTON. Received October 1,7, 1.14 a.m. SYDNEY, October 16. A cyclone storm at Grafton, today, was accompanied by heavy thunder, immense hailstones fell. A number of buildings were unroofed, £and destroyed. Great damage was done to orops. A child was struck unconscious by the hailstones.