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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8467, 18 June 1907, Page 5

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GOOD RAIN. Received June 17, 8.35 a.m. SYDNEY, June 17. Rain is general. The amount registered in Sydney is 3& inches. OBITUARY. Received June 17, 8.35 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 17. The death is announced of R. McLeod, the well-known cricketer, and a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club Committee. « TIMBER STRIKE. Received June 17, 10.8 a.m. PERTH, June 17. In connection with the strike in the timber trade, the manager of Millar's Karri Company has received orders to withdraw all offers to the men, wlio are notified that they must return to work under the Arbitration Court's award or leave the company's ground. MORE MELBOURNE CRIMES. DARING BURGLARIES. Received June 17, 10.8 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 17. Daring burglaries continue to occur. A safe in Connelly and Sons' (South Melbourne) was removed from the office to a building in the rear. The robbers were evidently disturbed, foi 4 they failed to open the safe. The City Solicitor, who had received payments amounting to £l6O, placed the money in his coat pocket. On reaching home he found that the pocket had been cut away, and that the money was gone. NEW SOUTH WALES RUGBY TEAM. Received June 18, 1.6 a.m. SYDNEY, June 17. As it is intended to keep the New South Wales Rugby- team chosen to tour Queensland together, when they return, until after the second match against New Zealand, they will probably be located at some seaside resort.. CRICKET ASSOCIATION. | Received June 18, 12.23 a.m. SYDNEY, June 17. 1 At a meeting of the Cricket Association the Premier (Mr J. Carruthers) was elected President. It was decided to unconditionally remove the disqualification on certain players. -VANCOUVER AND AMERICAN MAILS. Received June 18, 12.32 a.m. SYDNEY, June 17. The Moeraki sailed at 3.40 p.m., taking 209 bags of Vancouver and . Amercan mails, which had been transhipped from the Manuka. SIR J. G. WARD. Received June 18, 12.32 a.m. MELBOURNE. June 17. Sir J. G. Ward and party have arrived at Melbourne. Speaking at a lunch given in Sir Joseph's honour by the Acting-Prime Minister, Sir J. Forrest and Sir Joseph Ward eulogised Mr A. Deakin's work at the Colonial Conference. SHIPPING. —— v Received June 18, 12.32 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 17. Arrived—Largo Gow, from New York. NEW HEBRIDES CONVENTION. IMPORTANT STEP. COLONIES' VOICE IN TREATY MATTERS. Received June 17, 10.17 a.m. ADELAIDE,fJune 17. Dr. Fitchet', Solicitor-General of New Zealand, who was at Home with Sir Joseph Ward, was interviewed here regarding the meetings of the Anglo-French New Hebrides Committee, on which Dr. Fitchett represented New Zealand. Dr. Fitchett said the machinery was put in satisfactory working order. The meetings were merely to arrange salaries and tenure of office of judges of the Joint Court, and to arrange genei ally for the conduct of its business. Dr. Fitchett added that no little importance attaches to the step taken by the Mother Country in connection with the nomination of the committee. It is the first time on record that the British Government has recognised the right of a self-govern-ing dependency to have a say in such proceedings by nominating a British representative. (Australia, as well as New Zealand, was invited to appoint a representative on this Anglo-French Committee, but Mr Deakin, who resents the facts that the colonies were not sufficiently consulted before the New Hebrides Convention was drafted, declined the invitation.)

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