AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8464, 14 June 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BIG SUMS FOR MISSIONS. Received June 13, 10.16 a.m. SYDNEY, June 13. - The.Methodist Conference has obtained £4,143 for missionary enterprise. .VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE. Received June 13, 10.11 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 13. The Postmaster-General has completed arrangements for a renewal of the Vancouver mail service for two years, the same terms as at present, .except that during the busy season the steamer Miowera will be replaced by a vessel which will reduce the steaming time by twenty four hours. The jiaw .terms make it optional to terminate the contract at the end of the first year by giving four months' notice. ANOTHER MELBOURNE MYSTERY. Received June 13, 10.16 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 13. The luraeasy feeling created owing to the mint robbery and the murder of Mr Bauer, diamond merchant, has been accentuated by the discovery that a safe containing £2OO was mysteriously opened at a temperance hall, and the money removed. SYDNEY COAL LUMPERS. Received June 13, 8.33 a.m. SYDNEY, June 13.' A mass meeting of unionist \ coal lumpers and others threatened to bring about a general £ industrial crisis \i an attempt was made to crush their union. (It is some time since the Sydney coal lumpers' trouble figured in the cablegrams. The last message indicated that the strike was unsuccessful, the employers being able to get sufficient non-union labour.)