AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8446, 23 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ELECTION CAMPAIGN. ( Received May 22, 9.56 a.m. SYDNEY, May 22. Mr McGowan, leader of the State Labour Party, at a large meeting, opened the Opposition campaign. He denounced the proposals of Mr Carruthers (Premier) to abolish the income tax and the Arbitration Court. He criticised the Government for what he termed bogus prosecutions connected with the Crick-Willis scandals.

COBAR STRIKE.

DAMAGE THREATENED,

Received May 22, 9.56 a.m. SYDNEY, May 22,

The strike at the copper mines of Cobar has rendered idle over 2,000 men, and plant valued at five millions sterling.

It is feared that the mines will become flooded, and that serious damage will result to the machinery unless hands are obtainable to man the pumping machinery. The management is firmly determined to resist the strikers' demands. FRUIT FLY. Received May 22, 9.56 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 22. A deputation of fruit-growers asked for the total prohibition of the importation of fruit likely to be infected with fruit fly. The Minister for Agriculture promised to submit a scheme dealing with the subject to the forthcoming Premiers' Conferenec.

A DERELICT.

Received May 22, 10.1 a.m. PERTH, May 22

The court has decided that the boat owner Hancock, who boarded the steamer Mildura, after the wreck, has established his claim to the vessel as a derelict.

VICTORIAN SERVICE TO

SINGAPORE. Received May 22, 10.1 a.m. MELBOURNE. May 22. The State Government has arranged with the Sir Donald Currie Company to run a five-weekly steam service between Melbourne and Singapore, paying a subsidy of £2,000 per annum. (Victoria, as well as some of the other States, is doing an expanding business with Eastern ports, such a Singapore, Hongkong and Manila. Recently the demand for flour was more than could be met by the regular tonnage, and it is probable that this subsidy is forced upon Victoria by the conditions prevailing. Two thousand pounds is a small amount to pay for the service.)

RABBIT VIRUS. Received May 22, 9.56 a.m. SYDNEY. May 22. The South Australian Commissioners have reported adversely on the results of Dr. Danysz's experiments with his virus for the destruction of rabbits. They state that it is a waste of time and money for Dr. Danysz to proceed further. (Of the opposition to the Danysz system, a great portion has come from South Australia. The line of objection seems'to be that the virus is not sufficiently fatal to make it worth while to risk the introduction of a new disease.)

ADVERTISING. Received May 23, 12.9 a.m. SYDNEY, May 22. Giving evidence at the Arbitration Court, to-day, Mr Samuel Hordern stated that the firm of Anthony Hordern and Sons spent £20,000 or more annually in advertisements. In one year they spent £35,000.

, ~.! M PLAGUE. ANOTHER CASE, Received May 23, 12.9 a.m. SYDNEY, May 22. A case of plague is reported at Annandale. The patient worked in Sussex Street in the city. A SUSPECT. Received May 23, 12.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 22. A wharf labourer at Collingwood has been quarantined. He is suspected to be suffering from plague. DISASTROUS HURRICANE. Received May 23, 12.40 a.m. SYDNEY, May 22. Letters received by German residents in Sydney, give further details of the hurricane at the Caroline Islands. Oleai and Ifaluk appear to have been the centre of the disturbance, which raged with terrific fury. The other principal islands in the group also suffered severely, but the people at Ponape Ruk, Yap and Pelevv escaped. According to an officer of the German surveying corvette Planet, which was despatched to the assistance of distressed islanders, not a house remains standing on Oleai, and every cocoanut palm has been stripped. Two hundred natives were drowned at Oleai, and 25 natives perished at Ifaluk.

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