AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 9 January 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AN ItfFfißtfAL MACHINE FOUND. Received January 8, 10.24 a.m. SYDNEY, January 8. A white-lead tin filled with stones, powder and dynamite, with a fuse and detonator attached, has been found under a private residence" at Mosman's Bay. No attempt had been made to explode it. The police view the matter seriously. ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY FRUSTRATED, Received January 8, 10.24 a.m. SYDNEY, January 8. It has transpired that an attempt was made on Saturday night on board the Sierra to rob the purser's safe, containing a thousand sovereigns. Nothing was obtained. TAMPERING WITH MACHINERY. Received December 8, 10.24 a.m.* SYDNEY, January 8. The steamer Adelaide, which had been purchased by a Russian firm, was about to sail for Vladivostock with frozen meat, when it was found that a quantity of emery powder had been thrown among her bearings. The vessel has been detained for an overhaul.

Warning to intending EMIGRANTS. Received January 8, 10.24 a.m. SYDNEY, January 8. Letters received from artisans, who rushed from Australia to San Francisco in search of work, revfeal a deplorable condition of the labour market; -Itey Warn others against coming. WRECK OF A BARQUE. Received January 8, 10.24 a.m. LAUNCESTON, January 8. The barque Edenholme, bound from Hobart with part cargo from London for Launceston, ran ashore on a submerged reef three miles off Tamar Heads, and became a total wreck. The crew landed safely. ] AN ELOPEMENT AND ITS ■SEQUEL. Received Januarys, 10.2 Sum. MELBOURNE, January 8. Madame Ouchakoff, who eloped from St. Petersburg with Captain Gabriel Essipoff, and who has arrived with him in Melbourne, states that she is entitled to £50,000 sterling on the death" df her mother. She is prepared to relinquish all right to that, providing her people arrange for her divorce, and allow her a small annuity, sufficient for the captain and herself to live in Switzerland "when we marry." She goes on to say—"The captain is ill, he can do nothing. He is a soldier, and cannot speak or understand English; but I cannot leave him. I must stick to the man who has lost everything through me. He ; is sick, accustomed to good life, and wants many comforts that cannot be provided for him owing to our want of money. We do not know what to do, and have even spoke of suicide. I cannot go home; the captain's small fortune is gone, his service is at an end; he is a deserter, and has ruined himself for me."

BRAVE ACTION OF A MINER,

Received January 8, 10.12 a.m. PERTH, January 8. A sensational occurrence is reported from Ravensthorpe. Two explosions occurred in a smelter; the first blew away a few pieces of piping, and also exploded in the'fore hatch. The men working in the vicinity made & rush to get away. One man named Townshend, remained, however, and shut off the water, recognising the extreme danger of water reaching the inside of the furnace. This gallant feat probably saved the whole works from being blown to pieces. The property was seriously damaged, but no one was injured. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Received January 8, 10.50 p.'rn. SYDNEY, January s. At the wool sales nearly 10,000 bales were catalogued. There is an improvement in prices of 5 per cent, all round. The market is particularly strong,' and competition ifi very keen, especially in lambs wool. The highest price for scoured was 24d, and for greasy 15} d. STEAMER ON FIRE. i Received January 8, 10.57 p.m. SYDNEY, January 8, A cable from Sumatra anriounces that the steamer Netherton, loading case oil for Australia, is on fire. AUSTRALIAN RACING. ' Received January 9, 1.2 a.m. SYDNEY, January S. There are 111 entrants for the Doncaster and 68 for the Cup. Multifid, Apologue, Grenade, Captain Shannon, Leonator, Putty and Cuneiform, the New Zealand horses, appear in the lists, MELBOURNE, January 8. Eighty-nine horses have . been entered for the Newmarket Handicap, including Cuneiform, Captain Shan--non, Beresina, Menschikoff and Solution. Fifty have entered for the Australian Cup, including Putty, Apologue, and Solution, while the latter figures [in the Champion Stakes.

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