AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8442, 15 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COMMONWEALTH AND STATE. Received May 14, 9.53 a.m. SYDNEY, May 14. The State Premier, Mr Carruthers, speaking at the opening of the Lithgow ironworks, aggressively warned the Federal Government ; not to attempt, by coddling, to establish industries in any other State at the expense of New South Wales, which had embarked in a great iron and steel industry without assistance from the Federal Government.. The taxpayers would not tolerate being taxed to establish industries in other States.

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. Received May 14, 9.53 a.m. SYDNEY, May 14. Mr Waddell has been allotted the Chief Secretaryship in the Carruthers Ministry, in place of Mr J. A. Hogue, who has replaced the Hon. B. B. O'Conor as Minister for Public instruction.

STRANDING OF THE WILLi"..'. 7 ■ ',' YAM A. Received May 14, 9.53 a.m. .■ ADELAIDE, May 14. ■ The certificate of the captain of the steamer JA'illyanla, which went ashore at Marion Bay, has been suspended for twelve months, but he was granted a mate's certificate. The second mate had his master's certificate suspended for the same period, but he ' was given a second mate's ticket. CRICK AND WILLIS. Received May 15, 12.20 a.m. SYDNEY, May 14. The Attorney-General has decided to take no further proceedings against Crick and Willis. 1 RELICS. Received May 15, 12.20 a.m. SYDNEY, May 14. Relics from the ship Dunbar, in the shape*of two anchors, were found near The Gap. FATAL COLLISION. A MAN KILLED. THREE PERSONS INJURED. Received May 15, 12.20 a.m. SYDNEY, May 14. An electric tram collided with a cart in the city. An elderly man, named Foster, was killed, and two other passengers and the driver of the cart were injured. ' Lloyd, the driver, and Wannick, the conductor of the tram, have been arrested, charged with being drunk while on duty.