AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE PLAGUE. Received April la, 8.12, SYDNEY, Ajoril .13. A case of plague is reported from Ashfield. The patient was employed in the city.

A city clerk has .contracted the plague. FATAL FALL -OP JEART.H. FOUR MEN KILLED. Received April 13, 8.12 p.m. SYDNEY, April 13. A fall of earth at the South Clifton colliery killed four men, named Selby, Cavanagh, Harden and Billington. Received April 15, 1 a.m. SYDNEY, April 14. Another man, named (Garner, was injured by the fall of ear.th. Cavanagh escaped at the first fall and went to the rescue .of his comrades. He succeeded in gstting Billington clear, and was .assisting Selby when a second fall of earth buried them all.

RESCUE OF VERISCHETTL. HUGHES AND HEARNE FETED. PERTH, April 13. Before a large audience, including his Excellency the Governor (Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford), Ministers, .the Mayor, the'ltalian Consul, and Varischetti, Hughes (the diver wlho >rescued Varischetti from the 10®0 -feet level of the Westralia East | Mine) was presented with a gold vwatch and a hundred sovereigns and with a medallion for his wife. The I ©J&ber diver, Hearne, received a gold watch and fifty sovereigns. The enthusiasm was such that the police had to rescue Hughes from his .admirers.

FREE LABOURERS v. STRIKERS. SYDNEY, April 13. The taoaling of the Orient steamer which was interrupted by a strike of coal carders, who were dissatisfied with evidence given by certain foremen before the Arbitration Court, is proceeding: with free labour. ACQUITTED. PERTH, April 13. Parnell, who, it was cabled yesterday, was charged with having been found in unlawful possession of gold, was acquitted.

GAMBLING PLACES

MELBOURNE, April 13. Schultz, manager of the Tasmanian Parcels Express Agency Company, whose office in Melbourne was, the police alleged, used as an agency for Tattereall's sweeps, was fined £lO. The court ordered the forfeiture of £260 found on the premises.

FINANCIAL TROUBLES. MELBOURNE, April 13. The financial troubles of Mr J. Havelock Wilson, Labour member for Middlesbrough, and Home seamen's delegate to the Navigation Conference, has awakened in Labour circles. A proposal is on"foot to raise subscriptions. Mr Wilson's difficulties occurred through his criticism of the Merchant ShippingBill. The amount required is said to be £7OO. • (It was recently announced from London that Mr Wilson's creditors had accepted 10s in the £). SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN. Received April 15, 1 a.m. : SYDNEY, April 14. At Farmer's Baths, Dave Billington swam threequarters of a mile in 17min 36 2-ssec, establishing a world's record. The previous best record was 18min 7sec. Cecil Healy covered 100 yards in 57sec, lopping three-fifths of a second off the previous record.