AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8322, 2 January 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A CHINAMAN HANGED. BRISBANE, December 31. Look How, the Chinaman who murdered a fellow countryman, at TownsviHe, in August last, during a quarrel in ajgambling den, was executed to-day. Death was instantaneous.

ANEXJTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

Received January 1, 10.25 p.m.

MELBOURNE, January!

An extraordinary incident marked the departure of the Irish Monarch from New York. A large gathering of Irish-American longshoremen refused to allow the steamer to cast off till she hoisted the Irish flag. Captan Graham declined to accede to the request, and sent for the police. As ,the elections were progressing no police were available, and the affair began to look serious. The agents of the vessel were appealed to, and decided to overcome the difficulty by hoisting the British ensign foremast and the Irish flag at the mfzzen. The vessel sailed amidst the plaudits of the crowd.

THE RANGATIRA. BRISBANE, December 31. The steamer Prinz Sigismund has arrived from New Guinea. She reports that the steamer Rangatira, concerning the whereabouts of which there has been considerable anxiety, was at Frederich Wilhemshafen, New Guinea, with a broken shaft. She was expected to leave there yesterday for Sydney. The captain of the Prinz Sigismund states that the Rangatira broke her propeller shaft when in latitude 5 deg. north, longitude 132 deg. east, oh November 18th. She drifted till December 10th, when the engineers succeeded in coupling' the broken shaft: The* captain took the vessel very slowly to German New Guinea. There the vessel was lightened, and a coffer-dam was erected round the stern. When the Prinz Sigismund left efforts were being made to- put in a reserve shaft.

Captain Chudley hoped to be able to resume the voyage to Sydney on December 30th.