AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9018, 3 January 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HARVEST. BETTER PROSPECTS. Received January 2, 10 a.m. ADELAIDE, January 2. The harvest is proving better than was expected. CLUB-SWINGING FEAT. Received January 2, 9.33 a.m. SYDNEY, January 2. Tom Burrows beat his own club swinging record of 61 hours 35 minutes by two minutes. BURGLARY IN SYDNEY. JEWELLERY STOLEN. Received January 2. 9.33 a.m. SYDNEY, January 2. Burglars entered Anthony Hordern's business premises, and secured jewellery valued at £240. the burglars unhinged a door, and made good their escape.

NEWCASTLE COALING FACILITIES.

A COMPLAINT. Received January 2, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, January 2. Captain Williams, local manager of the Union Company, speaking at the Newcastle regatta, complained that the coaling facilities at Newcastle had not kept pace with the trade. The Union Company would build large vessels if the Government would help them to get steamers in and out of port. At present they could not depend on obtaining prompt coaling at Newcastle.

LIVE STOCK IN VICTORIA

Received January 3, 12.3 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 2. The number of live stock in Victoria last year was as follows: — Horses 406,000; dairy cows 701,000, other cattle 1,113,000; sheep, 12,937,000; swine, 2540,000. MINERS CEASE WORK. Received January 3, 12.3 a.m. SYDNEY, January 2. Owing to a section of the employees of the Pacific and Rhondda collieries in the Teralba district, the Dudley colliery at Charleswwn and the Killingworth colliary near West Wallsend, ceasing work, the mines have been thrown idle. The cause of the trouble is the rate of wages to be paid from to-day.

LOSS OF MEMORY.

HUNT'S CASE. Received January 2, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 2. Hunt, mention of whose case was cabled on December sth, has regained his memory, and vecognised. his wife. Sunstroke caused his lapse of memory. (The case of- Frederick Hunt excited considerable interest in Melbourne. The man completely lost his memory remembering nothing that had occurred since 1887. when he was thirty years of age. He asserted that he was a lieutenant on the flagship Nelson, and demanded that he be allowed to return to his vessel. The fact that he is fifty years old, "nd has a wife and child, he treated as a joke.)