AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8432, 2 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE COALING TROcf M&E'

NON-UNIONISTS ATTACKS^;

Received. May 1, 6.38 p.m. SYDNEY, May 1

There has been a sensational de--velopmeat inj| connection with 'the coaling: trouble. The coaling tfoe Norddeutscher Lloyd steauwer ;Prinsf Sigismund with non-unioniafrs was to have have been commenced this afternoon. Several hundred.,strikers and others collected in the vicinity of the company's whairf m Circular Quay, and when the non-unionists niarched down, without a police escort, the crowd set upon them awd brutally assaulted them, about twenty being more or less in juredv A strong force of police arrived and. restored order, but not beforeseveral of them had' been roughly handled: Six arrests were made. There was much excitement, and thousands of people congregated on the wharf watching' the later stages of the riot.

PIG IRON, Received May 1; 10113 awn. SYDNEY, Maf J. • The first truck-load of pig iron? from native ores was turned out at. the Lithgow ironworks yesterday. The work of converting it into- steel will be completed within a few days.

COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY*

Received May 1, 8.4 atnu -7! J i SYDNEY, May I,, 5 The net profit of the Colonial Sugair Company ' for the halS-year i is £IIO,OOO. A [dividend at the rate wf lOjper cent has been declared.

TASMANIAN SMELTERS" STRIKE ENDED. Received May 1, 8149 a.m". {■'■ HOBART r May 1. The smelters' strike is ended- The strikers are resuming work.

THE WRECK OF THE- RASByT Received ' May 2, 1.6 a.m.' ; ' • MELBOURNE, May I.' A marine enquiry is being held into the wreck of the Easby. . Wallace testified that he instructed the second mate to call him when the Everard light was abeam. The mate did so, but as he had had very little sleep for three days he must have dozed off again. The nextjthing he knew was that the vessel was bumping. He had been continuously on duty for 22 hours. Mr Masters, the second mate,, said that he called Captain Wallace, but told hira. he was five miles off the light. Afterwards he found that he had made a mistake.

A RACEHORSE SOLD, r

, Received 1 May'2, 1.6 a,m. MELBOURNE, May 11 The' racehorse Misty Morn has been sold for 1,500 guineas/