AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9001, 11 December 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LOCAL OPTION. HOTELS AT BROKEN HILL CLOSED. Received December 10, 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, December 10. A Special Court closed nine hotels at Broken Hill, under the recent local option vote. MR KEIR lIARDIE. LABOUR PARTIES COMPARED. Received December 10, 10.36 a.m. ADELAIDE, December 10. Mr Keir Hardie, British Labour M.P., although favourably impressed by what he had seen in Austra'ia, says he has not yet been able to pick up any points for his own party. The Labour parties in England, he considers, are more highly organised than those of Australia and more comprehensive. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. Received December 10, 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, December 10.. John Brown, an inmate of the Liverpool Asylum, has just died, aged 119. He arrived in the State 87 years ago. Brown had served in the navy. INGEBORG-ARAWATTA COLLISION. A CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. Received December 10, 10.35 a.m.

SYDNEY, December 10. The owners of the Ingeborg have commenced an action against the owners of the Arawatta, claiming compensation for the loss of the Ingeborg by collision on August 14th. (Early on the morning of August 14th, when eight miles off Port Stephens, the steamer Arawatta ran into the barque Ingeborg, from Welington to Newcastle. The Ingeborg sank almost immediately, and seven men, including Captain Schmidt, were drowned. The Court of Marine Fnquiry found that the regulation lights were exhibited on the Ingeborg, and that the collision occurred through a proper lookout not being kept on the Arawatta, for which the second mate was found in default. The court was also of opinion that the Ingeborg contributed to the collision by failing to take the action prescribed in the regulations for preventing collisions at sea when a collision seemed inevitable. It exonerated the captain of the Arawatta from all blame). EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENTS. MELBOURNE RESIDENT'S SCHEME. A PROPOSED GIFT OF £50,000. Received December 10, 10.48 a.m. :

MELBOUNRE, Decebmer 10. Mr Thomas Stanford, brother of Mr Leland Stanford, the founder of the Leland Stanford University, California, who has been a resident of Melbourne for 47 years, has formulated a scheme of endowment to enable Australian students to attend the Stanford University. He will set aside in his will £50,000, which will yield sufficient to permit six or eight students to attend the university annually. The details will be left in the hands of the unversity trustees. SHIPPING. Received December 10, 12.58 a.m. SYDNEY, December 19. Sailed—Pendle Hill, for Wanganui. EXPLOSION OF AMMONIA. THREE PERSONS INJURED. Received December 11, 12.58 a.m. BRISBANE, December 10. A cylinder of ammonia exploded on the wharf at Cairns. A Customs officer and two others were injured and removed to the hospital. It is believed that the cause of the explosion was the intense heat.