AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8431, 1 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PROHIBITED IMMIGRANTS. Received April 30, 11.37 p.m. MELBOURNE, April 30. Since July of last year forty-two shipmasters have been lined £IOO each on charges of having allowed prohibited immigrants to land. DIVER HUGHES. Received ApriT3o, 11.37 p.m. SYDNEY, April 30. Diver Hughe?, who rescued the entombed miner Varischetti, was welcomed to Sydney by the Lord Mayor and the Premier.

THE DOUBLE COLLISION. Received April 30, 10.28 a.m. ADELAIDE. April 30. An the inquest on Johnson, who was drowned when the anchored barque Norma was run down by the Ardencraig, it was stated that the helmsman of the Ardencraig had cleared out. The captain of the Ardencraig stated that he thought the lights he saw before a squall obliterated them belonged to the pilot boat. As the squall cleared, he saw them again and ordered the helm to be put up. The helmsman started to put it down. Witness then gave him a hand to get it up,« but it was too late. The owners of the steamer Jessie Darling "have issued a writ for £5,000 damages against the Ardencraig. ' - '

THE NEW HEBRIDES,

Received April 30, 10.25* a.m. MELBOURNE, April 30. In connection with the statements made that contraband trade on the part of French residents in the New Hebrides places British traders at a disadvantage, Sir John Forrest, Acting Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, says it is hoped thatjmatters will be put on a better footing when the Anglo-French Convention is in operation. The Federal Government's vote of £soo]for the assistance of the British settlers was, Sir John Forrest added, being used as a bonus on maize. Wherever the price obtained did not reach 6s, the bonus was given to make up the difference. So far little of the money had been used.