AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8434, 4 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

DEAD IN LAW. Received May 3, 10.17 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. A man, named Keegan, has obtained a rule from the Full Court to test a claim for compensation for land that was resumed by the Government under peculiar circumstances. The applicant was dead in law about 15 years ago. He fell over a precipice, the injuries affected him mentally, and he wandered about Australia for 14 or 15 years, till a surgical operation restored his faculties. Then he found that his wife, believing him to be dead, had remarried, had obtained letters of administration over his . property, and had accepted compensation from the Government for the resumption of his farm. THE WRECK OF THE EASBY. Received May 3, 10.17 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 3. The certificate of Captain Wallace, of the steamer Easby, has been suspended for six months. Masters, the second mate, was severely censured. THE WA.RRIMOO. Received May 4, 12.10 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. The Warrimoo has been detained at Newcastle owing to a gale. Her departure has been postponed till Monday. AN INTERESTING CEREMONY. Received May 4, 1.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 3. There was an interesting ceremony at Newport Railway Workshops when a handsome marble tablet, subscribed xor oy the workmen in the shops, in memory of the late Mr R. J. Seddon, was presented to the Hon. Ci .H Mills, ex-Minister. The tablet will probably be erected in some public building in Wellington. COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE. Received May 4, 12.22 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. There is no change in the coal lumpers' strike. Coaling is proceeding satisfactorily with no-nunion labour. SHIPPING INDUSTRY. Received May 4, 12.22 a.m. SYDNEY,' April 3. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court, on the application of the Merchant Sex-vice Guild, has granted a common rule relating to the shipping industry in respect of an award made in December last year. The Judge said that as all the inter-State steamship companies competed more or less with the interState companies already Dound by the award, and as the terms of the award were fairly applicable to a large number of such steamers it had been decided to make its terms a common rule in respect of all ships trading between States or on any voyage from the Commonwealth to ports outside Australia specified in the award, viz., New Zealand, New Caledonia, or the Fiji group. His Honor made a provision so that the rule should not impose a hardship on any owner who was able to produce satisfactory evidence that the award wasjnotjfairly applicable to his ships or shipping business. A STEAMER WRECKED. Received May 4, 12.22 a.m. SYDNEY. May 3. During the height of the gale early this morning a small steamer, named the Unity, was cast on the Stockton Beach, Newcastle. The crew of five were rescued by the rocket briga.de.