AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8295, 26 November 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ALLEGED PERJURY

SYDNEY, November 23.

Keceutly two wjinen were aeuteuoed ou ahargea of obtaining goods on false pretences. Subsequently one made a statement that the other induced her to Rive false evidence in connection with the case in which the other woman was awnrded £IOO damages, and in a second involving a well-known doctor in connection with some divorce proceedings.

RAILWAYS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

SYDNEY, November 24. A return shows that 3,039 miles of railway are onen in New South Wales, valued at £43,626,000.

STATE LAND B\NK BILL,

SYDNEY, November 24. In the legislative Assembly the State Land bank Bill was re-id a third time.

FISHERMEN DROWNED.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 24. Two Fishermen, named Brown and Wynne, were drowned as the result of their boat upsetting.

IHE MAIL CONTRACT,

MELBOURNE, Nov. 24. It ia tsnderstood in shipping circles that the oompany which secured the English mail contraot is negotiating with large shipping firms already In the Australian trade, in dueling the Peninsular and Oriental and Paolflo Companies Ad rices have also been received that the prinicpal steamship companies are conferring with a view of re-arranging the whole marine services throughout the world in order to oopa with foreign competition.

LAWN TENNIS

BUCKLEY CUP COMPETITION. MELBOURNE, Nov. 24. Mr H. A. Parker, formerly of New Zealand, found at the last minute that he was unable to play for New South Wales in the Buckley Cup tennis competiticu.

Received November 25, 5.23 p.m. MELBOURNE, November 25. In the Buckley Lawn Tennis Cup Viotoria defeated New South Wales by 176 to 118 games.