AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8304, 6 December 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE WRECKED AUSTRALIA

Received December 5, 8.54 a.m. PORT DARWIN, December 5.

A 4; the Marine Board's preliminary enquiry into the wreck of the Australian all the officers expressed the opinion that the loss of the vessel was due to the phenomenal set of the current, which carried the steamer out uf her course.

SWEATING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Received December 5,9.43 a.m. PERTH, December 5. The Secret Committee on Sweating reports that the evil does not exist to any alarming extent in the State. It is believed, though, that it exists to some exent, and the burden of undue competition is daily being forced more opprassively on the shoulders of employees. The Committee makes a number of xecommeudationa.

DR RAINY. Received December 5, 8.36 a.m. ADELAIDE, December 5. Dr Rainy, ex-prinoipal of the New College at Edinburgh, has arrived here. Ha was too ill to land or receive visitors, and will continue his voyage to Melbourne. (Dr Rainy, wno is 80 years of age, takes the first plaoe in Sootland as an eoolesiastioal statesman and leader. JBe was elected Moderator of the Free Church in 1887, First Moderator of the United Proe Church of Scotland in 1900, and Moderator again last year. He was extruded, with all his colleagues from the college buildings in virtue of the Lords' decision in the Scottish Church case. His ohief works are—"Three Lectures -ou the Church of Scotland." "The Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine," "The Bible and Criticism," and "History of Ancient Church.")