AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8458, 7 June 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TIMBER JETTISOMEffi. Received June 6, 7.40 .a.m. I : SYDNEY, June (6. ! The barque Rona, which arrived yesterday from Kaipara, experienced exceptionally rough weather, and was compelled to jettison her deoK .caifgo of 80,000 feet of timber. SCHOONER STANLEY.. Received June 6, 7.40 a.m. SYDNEY, June v 6. The schooner Stanley has been sold to a Napier syndicate for service-on the New Zealand coast. (This is apparently the schooner Stanley which recently returned to Sydney after a remarkable cruise iin the Pacific. She was a wooden schooner employed in the Australian coastal trade, and was purchased and fitted out as a pleasure yacht by Sir Brodrick Hartwell, who is alleged to have eloped to Australia with the wife of Engineer-Lieutenant Chamberlain, who recently obtained a decree nisi at Home on that ground. With Sir Brodrick Hartwell on the cruise was a lady known as Lady Hartwell. The Stanley, by plucky seamanship, rescued the castaways of the barque Annasona, which was wrecked on Middleton Reef, and landed them at Lord Howe Island. Writes the Sydney Morning Herald: —"Nothing further was heard respecting the Stanley until her unexpected arrival in port at Sydney late on the night of April sth, when it was reported that she had been severely damaged on a portion of Middleton Reef, and had made Sydney for repairs. It subsequently transpired that for six weeks the Stanley had been engaged in salvage operations at the scene of the Annatsona wreck, and she brought back to Sydney about £7OO worth of salvage.)

(COMMONWEALTH AND STATE. ißeceived June 6, 7.40 a.m. ,» MELBOURNE, June 6. rSir John Forrest, Acting-Prime of the Commonwealth, iblames Mr Carruthers, Premier of 3Jew;-South Wales, for the unsatisfactory result of the Premiers' ConferKenoe .v?i.th regard to the question of the Gommonwealth taking over the state4tebts. Mr Carruthers to exalt the States and to belittle the Commonwealth. , VANCOUVER SERVICE. ißeeeitued June 6, 9.59 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 6. Sir .John Forrest, Acting-Prime Miniatar.of itihe Commonwealth, says that ili.ttle difficulty has arisen in flomieotion with the Vancouver mail service negotiations, but it is hoped that something will be determined in a fe*>v .days, THE METHODIST Received June 6, JO. 50 p.m. v SYDNEY, June 6. The Conference further discussed the qaiefiti.ojp .of lay representation at Fiji. The Rev, Mr Garland .(New Zealand) maintained that lay representation would give a preponderance of power to the native vote. The Rev. Woolls Rutledge .urged that it would be unwise to hand over such great questions. I:l granted that power, the natives w,o.uld probably desire to go still farther, and might start a rebellion.

The Rev. Robson (New South Wales) warned the Conference that if they were not very careful they would lose the Fijian Church altogether. The Rev. Smale declared himself absolutely on the side of lay representation. Dr. Brown said that the only way they could save the Fiji mission was to make the church in Fiji a church of chiefs and the people, not a church of missionaries. One of the greatest anxieties the Rev. Smale had was that Fiji was a free church, and its influence was spreading. It only wanted a chief of some importance to place himself at the head of the discontented natives, and they would have the Tonga experience repeated in Fiji. No greater slur could be cast on Fiji than to say that out of its people, among whom they had been labouring for seventy years, and from whom the Government took civil servants, magistrates and doctors, there was not a solitary layman in each circuit to take his place in the Financial District Synod and have a voice in dividing his own money. The talk of the preponderance of the native vote was a bogey. Dr. Brown's motion, that the principle of lay representation should be put into operation at the Fiji Synod of 1908, was carried, with a few dissentients.

NO-LICENSE D EMONSTRATION. Received June 7, 1.9 a.m. SYDNEY, June G. A monster No-license demonstration was held in the Town Hall tonight. The speakers included Mr F. M. B. Fisher, of Ne.v Zealand. HIDES MARKET. Received June 7, 12.2 a.m. MELBOURNE, June G. There is good competition for hides, and prices are firm and unchanged. THL MINT GOLD ROBBERY". Received June 7, 1.9 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 6. No clue has been obtained with regard to the missing gold from the Mint.

CABLE MEWS

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'QUEENSLAND .SUGAR PLANTATIONS. I .EUROPEAN .LABOURERS ENGAGED. Received ..June;7, 12.2 a.m. June 6. /The Colonial tSygar Company has •engaged in .-Europe 112 labourers, .mostly Spaniards, to work in the sugar, .plantations. THE FLAGSHIP. ReceivedtJune77, 1.9 a.m. June 6. A wireless message received from 'the flagship, vto-night, stated that •the.vessel expects to reach port from Auckland at 8 o'clock in the morning.