AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9003, 13 December 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A SYDNEY TRAGEDY. SUICIDE OR MURDER. Received December 12, 10.31 a.m. SYDNEY, December 12. The body of a fourteen-year-old boy named Oswald Barlow was found in the ocean near Manly, with a hatpin driven into the heart. The lad hacf been missing for some days. , , , It was stated that he had been de- j pressed through the departure of a brother to New Zealand a few weeks i ago, but the manner of death would indicate foul play rather than suiA quantity of linotype metal and nails was found in the pockets. 1 TRAMWAY EMPLOYEE ELECTROCUTED. Received December 12, 11.10 a.m. PERTH, December 12. Lewis, a tramway employee, while repairing an overhead wire, was electrocuted near Boulder City. KAURI TIMBER COMPANY. ANNUAL MEETING. Received December 12, 10.48 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 12. At the Kauri Timber Company's annual meeting the chairman stated that the period ended had been one of the best in the existence of the company The debenture debt had been reduced to £46,000. The profits amounted to £37,398. A dividend of 5 per cent, was declared, and £7,148 carried forward. A 10 per cent bonus was allotted on the salaries of the staff. WILFUL WASTE A HINT TO SLAUGHTERMEN. Received December 12, 10.48 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 12. Dr Brown, of the Agricultural Department, estimated the loss in sheepskins alone by damage through slaughtermen using a wrong cut when skinning the animals amounts annually to £125,000, the loss by reckless branding of cattle to £300,000 yearly, and another £150,000 is lost by the reckless flaying of hides. RESULT OF ARBITRATION | COURT AWARD.

FIVE HUNDRED MEN IDLE. [ Received December 12, 11.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 12. As a result of shortening hands at the harvester factories 500 _ men have been thrown idle. Their society's funds are exhausted, and many are in great straits. (This is the result of an arbitration award, immediately after the announcement ot which the Sunshine Harvester works closed down, throwing idle 500 hands). SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Received December 12, 9.30 p.m. SYDNEY, December 12. At the wool saies superior classes closed steady at late rates. DEATH DUE TO DROWNING. Received December 13, 1.12 a.m. SYDNEY, December 12. A post-mortem examination disclosed a hatpin in Barlow's heart. Dea'-h was due to drowning.