AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8289, 17 November 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

i NT LYELL RETURNS. ' MOD, -ember 16, 10.2 a.m. Keeaivedl Mo\ ,„,„„ „ TKNE., Ncv. 16. MELtfOc en Company's The Mount L> half-year was net profit for tn« . <, r £239,397. From OcfoU veil mine November 7tb tber Moooft JL, j u a( j. treated 31,325' tons of ore, ore dition to 206 tons porobaisaQ > ec ] treated, The converters prodcic 638 tons of blister copper, containing -- Copper, 631 tons; silver, J 56,2450zs and gold 1,7270z5. '

CRIME IN SOLOMON ISLANDS. Keoeived November 16, 10 r 2 a.m. SYDNEY, November 16. Mr Hopkins, a missionary, who has just arrived from Malayta, atates that fourteen murders were committed during the past six weeks, the victims being natives. One native attached to a station was murdered by a returned kanaka.. ADELAIDE BUILDING TRADE. Keceivecr November 16, 10.2 a.m. ADELAIDE, November 16^ Tbe building trade employes are seeking a reduction of hours to 44 a week,, and an increase of wages of three halfpence on hour. A LADIES TENNIS TEAM. Received November 17, 12.4 a.m. SYDNEY, November 16. The Lawn Tennis Association has decided to send a ladies team to the Ohristoburoh Carnival.

A MURDEROUS ATTACK.

Received November 17, 1.14 a.m. SYDNEY, November 16. Whilst Mr Quaine, Deputy-Gover-nor of the Paramatta Gaol, was inspecting the prisoners, a long sentence man, named George Harris, sprang from the line, and struck Quaine heavily in tbe face. Then with toe other hand he stabbed the Deputy-Governor in the breast with a shoemaker's knife. With tbe assistance of tbe warders Harris was disarmed. Quaine received a precarious wound, the knife having penetrated the lungs.

EXECUTION OF A MURDERER. Reoeived November 17, 12.14 a.m. ADELAIDE], November 16. Habbibuld has been executed for murdering bis wife on August. 13th. Death was instantaneous. He was attended on the scaffold by two Mabommedaa priests.