AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9022, 8 January 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

MINERS TROUBLE AT NEWCASTLE. SPECIAL COURT SITTING. DECISION TO-MORROW. - Received January, 7, 10.45 p.m. SYDNEY, January 7. The Teralba pits are still idle. The special Court has concluded taking evidence in the Teralba cases, and gives its decision to-morrow as to whether the roeri broke the,' agreement when they struck work. The feeling to-day is morei conciliatory. The American Consul has received tender forms from his Government for 60,000 tons of the best Newcastle coal delivered at Manila. MURDER AND SUICIDE. RESULT OF A QUARREL. Received January 8, 12.55 a.m. PERTH, January 7. A railway employee named McGuigan, and a scrub-cutter, named Hart, quarrelled. Hart borrowed a gun, and shot' McGuigan dead, and then committed suicide. HOT WEATHER. 108 DEGREES IN THE SHADE. Received January 7, 9.58 a.m. ADELAIDE, January. 7. There is extremely hot weather in the State. The temperature in the city yesterday was 108 degrees in/he shade. MURDEROUS STUDENTS. AN ALLEGED RUSSIAN PLOT. BOMBS AND BLACKMAIL. Received January 7, 10 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 6. Many students at Kieff have been arrested. They had in their possession bombs, and it is alleged that they blackmailed an ironworks to the extent of £6,000. Provision had been made for immunity from attack. It was also intended to assassinate tfoejGovernor, the prefect of police, and the rector. v of ths University. CHURCH AND STATE. ENORMOUS LEAKAGES OF MONEY. Received January 7, 10 a.m. ' PARIS, January 6. Enormous leakages of jmoney are reported in conneetoin with the I separation of Church and State. ? A Senatorial Committee has been i appointed to make enquiries. JAPAN AND CHINA. A COMPLAINT AND A WARNING. Received January 7, 10 a.m. TOKIO, January 6. The Tokio newspaper "Kokumin- , shinbun" complains of the Chinese attitude towards Japan, and hints that unless outstanding questions are arranged, Japan will be forced to mobilise 700,000 men.