AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8299, 30 November 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

outbreak of diphtheria. Received November 29, 10.30 a.m. BRISBANE, Nuvember 29. Owing to an outbreak of diphtheria the Metropolitan Stake sobools will close to-morrow for seveu weeks. i . LAWN TENNIS. Received November 29, 11.56 p.m. MELBOURNE, November 29. At the inter-State Tennis Tournament the Doubles Championship was won by Brooks and Wilding (New Zealand), wbo defeated Tatchell and Lyoett, the present holders, easily. Wilding showed remarkably good form. " INSURANCE COMBINE BROKEN UP. Peoeived November 30, 12.10 a.m. PERTH, November 29, The lire insnranoo oombine which existed for a number of years here bas been brukeu up. Ac a meeting of thirty.two companies out of thirty-five belonging to ~the Underwriters' AssouiatloD, a resolution was carried that owiqg to breaobes of\the agreement of the Association by the Royal Company, and all efforts to bring that Company into line having failed, the agreement of tbe Assooi ation be suspended. The manager of the Royal Company accuses the remaining members of the Assooiatibn of having been guilty of tbe very practises they condemn in tbe Royal. lie says his Company always observed the tariff right up to tbe time cf the rupture. It was tbe otb&r companies that were going behind the tariff. The result is to be a fierce war of rates. NEW SOUTH WALES 'BOILING TEAM DEFEATED.' deceived November 29, 10.32 a.m. MELBOURNE, November 29. The New South "Wales bowling team was defeated by the Victorian team easily in the first two of three games. GOLD ROBBERY AT PERTH., Received November 29, 10.82 a.m. PERTH, Two disguised men bound tne night, watchtaan at the Golden Arrow mine, and stole gold to the value of £3OO from the battery plates. GRASS FIRES STILL RAGING. Received November' 29, 10.32 a.m. . SYDNEY, November 29. Grass fires are still raging in.the west of New South Wales. In some parts the flames are stemmed for the present by the wind changing to the opposite direction.