AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8270, 25 October 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AN EXTRAORDINARY" INCIDENT. Received Octoher 25, 1.10 a.m. SYDNEY, October 24. An extraordinary incident occurred at the local Post Offloe today. Th® ma?! matter included a pearJfle whioh went off. One of the officials had a narrow escape.

MR DEAKIN'S "ONLY CHANCE." SPEECH BY MR REID. j Received October 24, 9.41 a,m. SYDNEY, Ootober 24. Mr Reid, Leader of the Opposition in the Inderal Parliament, speaking at a meeting of the Democratic Party, declared that tbe'only . chance Mr Deakin's remnant bad of living was by servitude to thft Socialistic machine and to the 'Labour caucus. t-l l ® appealed feo the electors to restore fpolitios fro « higher 3e?31. j THE MINING TROUBLE. ! INCREASE -'IN WAGES. ; deceived Ocftofeer'2l, '®;ss' p.na. SYDNEY, Ootobei'2a. After a meeting of the Mine Managers' Association at Broken' Hill,' a tnotioe was posted in mined that 'Wages as from October-2nd woialct be 'increased per uentum, and con'tinue in operation while tb-ai price oof lead remains dbove £l6. It is understood tfliat the posting of the uoSiaes 'is due to t'fce Managers' Association receiving a notililoation fj?om the' Unionist delegates that they woilld n«t sit in the proposed co&iferwnos with -nori-Union-ists, and discuss 'the wages' quesI' tion.

The Onion delegates vvEH discuss the situation tonight. It Isuconsiderediprobabld'that the Unionists'-will not aocept'- any arrangement whidfti did "not come through <tbe <Unk>n.

BOATING DISASTER.

Received Ootaber i24y*-9J41 a.m. PERTH, October 24.

Tho ■ages d£ , the nflve victims of the'boating disaster [caused by the ■ capsizing of tbe lyauhfr Sadie ranged from jnne years to twenty-two years. Ihere was nojother boat in tbevioin- . lty att the 1 time of the aooident.

.THE NEW HEBRIDES. MS!EBJOTI AT 10-NS WITH THE IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES. BY MR DEAKIN. 'fkisaivod <®ctober..li4i ) \B.3o a.m. MELBOURNE/ October 24. Mt iDeakin, tne ;•-'Federal Premier, -states that no treply has'been received , ito the >last cable '(message sent by ; theHGommonmealth £and:New Zealand ©overamenls to tbd Imperial i authorities in irefaresaoe to the New Hebrides Convention. > If the convention <"faad > boon amended in the 'direction desired, it would have permitted A«fltralia» New/Zealand , fjind Nocv Oaiodoiaia >to >■ make any Irtarlff changes they thought fit {■■witn ,-a view.of developing the New {'.Hebrides by-opeuing a market for |

(GAMBLING SUPPRESSION. ■OIHtJ 'VICTORIAN BILL,. (.Received* OotdWer'24. a.m. MflLßOUfcNE'G<jtoberß4. Cabinet <has adopted a number of amendments to "the Gaabling Bill. Ttoo oircuSafcion of all Australian newspapers containing advertiae- | mecleor iaformatioii-regarding lotteries ia prohibited and the number of trading days foe any course i<3 limited to -uixteea an'nuftfily at the outsifte. Tfae <So not contain any .esemptioa of a rraeeooarse, so thatfflQiCbe B»M stands the only permission "to 'bet on a racecourse is given at-oommoa law. fIIiCTOR'IAN LOAN. Received October '24, '.0:'30 a.qi. MEtiBOURNB, Oot. 26, lu aonsaeotiou with the four million loan falling diue in July next ■acrd in view ol the tigbtuess of the joaoaey market, and 'that the hold ers of stock «ould do better .with t'hek" cash, the, Premier (Mr Bent; has Victorian AgentGeneral to iuforua bon&holdeies that tb« (Government is prepared tin purchase fcho stouk now 4f the holders glv® consideration iu tbo way of digßKDOttt.

CABLE NEWS.

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