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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8989, 26 November 1907, Page 5

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RIFLE SHOOTING. BRITISH TEAM BEAT VICTORIANS. Received November 25, 9.42 p.m._ • MELBOURNE, November 25. % In a rifle match the British team beat the Victorians by 916 points to 913 points. FEAti OF PLAGUE. PRECAUTIONS IN SYDNEY. Received November 25, 9.42 a.m. SYDNEY, November 25. Owing to the prevalence of plague in San Francisco, strict precautions are being taken to prevent its introduction by vessels arriving thence. A WHEAT-LADEN SHIP. DIVERTED TO SYDNEY. Received November 25, 9.51 a.m. SYDNEY, November 25. The wheat-laden ship Tnessalus has arrived from South Australia. She was originally chartered for the United Kingdom" but was diverted to Sydney owing to the slate of the wheat market. QUEENSLAND POLITICS. PROTEST AGAINST A DISSOLUTION. Received November 25, 9.51 a.m. BRISBANE, November 25. Mr Kidston says that the Governor's action in dissolving Parliament will be dealt with at the right time. The KidstonitßS and Labour Party joined in a petition to- the Governor (Lord Chelmsford) protesting against the granting of a dissolution, but His Excellency was obdurate. TASMANIAN FINANCE. LOAN CONVERSION: Received November 25, 9.50 a.m. HOB ART, November 25. The Treasurer has arranged with the Australian Mutual Provident Society to convert £300,000 of the 4 psr cent, loan into H per cent, at 95. This saves the cost of renewing the loan in Londor. ALFHJLD'S MISSING CREW. FURTHER SEARCH FRUITLESS. Received November 25, 9.55 a.m. HOBART, November 25. Further search failed to discover any trace of the Alfhild's missing crew. (The Swedish ship Alfhild, bound from Rio de Janeiro to Hobart, in ballast, was wrecked on the west coast of Tasmania on October 10th, during a heavy storm. Four of the crew of seventeen were drowned. The remainder wandered along the shore in search of food, but found only a few shellfish. On the following Monday a small boat was found, on which six of the survivors embarked, and succeeded in reaching a lighthouse just before their boat was swamped. Search parties were sent out to look for the missing men, who had then been without food for eight days, but so far none of them have been found alive). A HEAVY HAILSTORM. LARGE LUMPS OF ICE. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE. Received November 25, 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, November 25. Sydney and places in the vicinity had a somewhat unique, certainly a very unseasonable, experience ytsterday. A hailstorm broke over the northern suburbs, and while it lasted, the fall of hail was very heavy. Some of the ice lumps were of the size of fowls' eggs Many windows were broken, and gardens suffered considerable damage. At Bathurst there was also a very heavy fall of hail, and here, also, damage was done to windows and gardens. TRAINS IN COLLISION. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. Received November 25, 10 a.m. BRISBANE, November 25. Through neglect on the part of someone, there was a train accident, which, though grave enough, might easily have been attended by much more serious results. The scene of the accident was the Gracetown station. Here a goods train was standing, when a passenger train drew in, and, owing to the points having been left open, ran on to the wrong set of metals. There was no escape from a collision, and the passenger train dashed into the standing one with considerable force. Several of the passengers were injured. The damage to the lolling stock was considerable. > NEWCASTLE STRIKE. COLLIERIES RESUME WORK. Received November 25, 11.35 p.m. SYDNEY, November 25. In accordance with Mr Wade's proposals all the Northern collieries excepting the Rhonnda colliery resumed work to-day The union and non-unionists worked amicably at the Rhonnda colliery before the strike, but to-day the unionists refused to re-start work with the non-unionists. Received November 26, 1.7 a.m. The Rhonnda colliery has resumed work.

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