AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8523, 28 August 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FEDERAL TARIFF. Received August 27, 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, August 27. The Treasury o'fficials deny that any duty was paid on wire netting, as stated by Sir William Lyne. THE TARIFF DEBATE. Received August 28, 12.53 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 27. Sir John Forrest resumed the tariff J debate and declared that he would not support any excessive duties, and not any higher than those proposed by the protectionist side of the Tariff Commission. The British preference proposals htd not been well thought out. They were slip-shod and the paltry make-belief preference was a mere appeal to the gallery. Mr J. C. Watson, leader of the Labour Party, said that the new tariff bore evidence of hasty preparation. The Government had not taken sufficient time to consider the reports of the two sections of the Tariff Commission. He was not at all enthusiastic over the preference proposals. His idea was that preference should be based on reciprocity, and he saw no reason for enthusiasm over a onesided preference. '

MEMBERS' SALARIES. Received August 27, 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, August 27. Meetings to protest against the Federal members raising their salaries continue to be held throughout the Commonwealth, and their action is warmly denounced. At a meeting of the Brisbane City Council one alderman suggested the importat'on of Russian Nihilists to give the Federal members such a rise that they would not want any further increase.

CARRIAGE OF BUTTER. . Received August 27, 9.30 p.m. SYDNEY, August 27. A contract, with a currency of two years, has been arranged between the Co-operative Butter Factories and the P. and C\, Orient, White Star, Aberdeen, and Lund steamship lines for the carriage of butter. London shippers will pay 2s 6d per box for mailboat space and 2s 3d for steamers. The [contract provides for a bi-weekly service; definite weekly clearances, and first call upon refrigerator space. THE ENMORE MURDER, Received August 27, 9.0 p.m. SYDNEY, August 27. Baxter has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs I.."eNamara on July Bth. The defence was a plea of sudden temporary insanity. (On July Bth an old woman named McNamara. who lived alone at Enmore, was found dead in bed with a strip of calico round her neck and her head bartered in. Baxter was arrested for the crime.) LION TAMER INJURED. Received August 27, 9.30 p.m. SYDNEY, August 27. During the performance of Wirth's Circus at Yass a lion attacked the tamer, named Marco, severely mauling and mangling one of his arms before the assistants drove the animal off. VICTORIAN TRADE. I Received August 27, 1b.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 27. The year's trade of Victoria was a record one. The total trade reached £54,152,394, the imuorts amounted to £25,234,402, or £2O 4s lid per head of population, and the experts t stalled £28,917,992, or £23 Us 4d per head of population. ~ i | A SURPLUS. Received August 27, 8.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 27. The final adjustment of the finances shows a surplus for the year of £814,000. THE ARAWATTA-INGEBORG COLLISION. Received August 27, 11.16 a.m. BRISBANE, August 27. The officers and crew of the Arawatta deny that the Ingeborg's lights were burning. (The mate of the Ingeborg stated that the lights of the vessel were all right a few minutes before the collision. The boatswain of the Arawatta deposed that one of the crew of the Ingeborg told him that the vessel had no lights after leaving New Zealand —only a candle in the lighthouse—and the second officer of the Arawatta said that the Ingeborg came up suddenly like a cloud in front of the steamer, and that he saw no lights until after the collision.)