AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 28 March 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE ENTOMBED MINER

A PATHETIC MESSAGE. Received March 27, 10.31 a.m. PERTH, March 27. Varischetti, the miner who is imprisoned by water in the workings of the Westralia East mine, has sent up a message saying that the water rose in the mine with indescribable rapidity. In a minute the drive was full. He adds;—"l was prepared/ to accept death. I wish to tell! you to be quick —that I feel as if my bones were dying. Dear men, have pity on myself. I send you my greetings. Farewell.— lam your miserable friend, Modist Varisett P.S. —Between all of you, help 2e " VARISCHETTI FE-LING WEAKER. Received March 27, 10.42 a.m. PERTH, March 27. The divers, Hughes and Kearne, went below again yesterday afternoon, and Hughes again visited the entombed man, and took him supplies in tins. The divers brought back a written message from Varischetti, stating that he felt his strength diminishing every day, and asking his rescuers to be quick. SYDNEY AGRICULTURAL SHOW. Received March 27, 10.31 a.m. SYDNEY, March 27. Darnley, New Zealand bred, won the blue ribbon for three-year-old stallions. In fat sheep, James Johns won first, second and third in crossbred wethers, and won a special prize for the heaviest and fattest sheep. QUARANTINE OF GAMBLING PLACES. Received March 27, 7.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, March 27. Cabinet has decided against accepting the surrender of the accused principals of the "Wren tote" and Tattersall's City Club. The cases must proceed. (The cases are the first applications under the new Victorian antigambling law for the quarantining, by order of the court, of premises proved to be used for gambling purposes. The principals both offered to take no further part in their respective businesses. The question whether the police could compromise with prosecuted persons by 'accepting the surrender and withdrawing the applications, was referred to the Cabinet). SENTENCED TO DEATH. Received March 28, 12.55 a.m. PORT DARWIN, March 27. Two aboriginals have been sentenced to death for the murder of j Bradshaw and party near Port Keats I last year. Both of the accused confessed to having committed the deed, but stated that they had been provoked by being tied up and thrashed by Joan, one of the victims. CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS. Received March 28, 12.49 a.m. MELBOU RNE, March 27. A death from cerebro-spinal meningitis, or spotted fever, has occurred here. The victim is a child 3£ years old, wjho was an inmate of the children's hospital. Another case is under treatment, but the child is now convalescent. It is stated that four cases Qf spotted fever have • been treated in the children's hospital during the last twelve months. COLONEL ROBIN. Received March 2S, 12.49 a.m. SYDNEY, March 27. _ Colonel Robin, interviewed, said he hoped that the Commonwealth officers would visit New Zealand next year. He was in favour of an exchange of visits. He hoped to see the invitation extended to non-com-missioned officers as well. There was a necessity for a community of interest in the defences of the Commonwealth and New Zealand because i of the joint strategical value of the position, which he emphasized, with the opening of the Panama Canal.