AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8384, 19 March 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Received March 18, 9.48 a.m. MELBOURNE, March 18. In consequence of failure to come to a satisfactory arrangement with the Federal Government, the wireless telegraphic station at Queenscliff will be dismantled, and the Marconi Company's agents will return to London.

WRECKAGE FOUWD. Received March]|lß, 9.48 a.m. SYDNEY, March 18. The steamer Brunner, from the Islands, reports the discovery of a quantity of wreckage at Henderville Island ■(? Henderson Island, southeast of Low Islands), consisting of a topmast*and deck fittings. There is nothing to disclose the identity of the vessel.

STRANDED AUSTRALIANS. Received March 18, 9.48 a.m. MELBOURNE, March 18. The Federal Government has authorised the Commercial Agent in South Africa for New Sojth Wales to supervise the shipping of a thousand distressed Australians back home, at £7 per head. They must be of good character and desirable citizens.

RAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Received March 18, 9.48 a.m. SYDNEY, March 18; Rain has ceased, after continuing throughout Saturday and Sunday. Altogether 4.7 in fell in Sydney.

VICTORIAN ELECTIONS. Received March 18, 9.33 a.m. MELBOURNE, March 18. Later election returns do not alter the position of the parties. Minis'erialists polled 72,149 votes, Labour 42,961. Premier Bent, while in England, will lecture on Victoria's resources.

SCULLING. Received March 18 ,10.15 p.m. SYDNEY, March 18: Durnan, the Canadian sculler, who was recently defeated by G. Towns for the championship of the world, has sailed for Canada. He expresses his intention to return next summer to again row Towns for the championship of the world.

CRICK-WILLIS TRIAL. Received March'lß, 10.15.p.m. SYDNEY, March 18. The Crick-Willis trial has'been fixed for April Bth. The indictment is the fiame as that on which the jury disagreed. •

REGISTRATION CANCELLED. Received March 18, 10.15 p.m. SYDNEY,. March 18. The Arbitration Court has cancelled the registration of the Wharf Laborers' Union for refusing to admit four men who, during the recent trouble, were engaged by the steamship owners to take the place of unionists. When the trouble was settled the owners discharged the men on the ground that unionists would not work with them. The men then applied and were refused admission to the union. Received March 18, 10.15 p.m. SYDNEY, March 18. The President of the Court considered that the cancellation made it doubtful whether the Union retained power to enforce the recent'agreement entered into with the shipowners, though'it did not effect the owners' power to enforce it, but it seemed to him that the owners were quite willing that the men should have the monopoly of the work on the wharves, and shut out anybody they liked, so long as employers themselves were not inconvenienced. It seemed as if the employers were tacitly but quite knowingly parties to this course of conduct, which it was the intention of the Act to forbid.

A STEAMER WRECKED. Received March 19, 1.15 a.m. BRISBANE, March 18. The chief officer of the A.U.S.N, steamer Mildura wired from Onslow that the Mildura went ashore at North West Cape on Tuesday night, and is regarded as a total loss. There is nine feet of water in the hold. The captain and thirty-one of the crew remained on the vessel. The* Mildura has cattle aboard. No fresh water is available, and it; is impossible for help to reach the vessel before Saturday. A VESSEL DAMAGED. Received March 19, 1.22 a.m. SYDNEY, March 18. . The River Boyne, which left Newcastle on Thursday for Wellington, put in to Sydney, to-night, for repairs,having, during a heavy gale, lost the upper topsail yard. While coming up the harbour she collided with a punt, and one of the River Boyne'a bow-plates was damaged above the water-line. The repairs will necessitate considerable delay.