AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9025, 11 January 1908, Page 5

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THE TERALBA MINES. . AN INTERIM JUDGMENT BY SPECIAL COURT. Received January 10, 9 a.m. SYDNEY, January 10. The Special Coal Commission delivered an interim judgment in the Teralba dispute in regard to cavilling and the choosing of mates. The court inspects several mines and resumes its sitting a week hence. The resumption of work by the men following on the judgment is taken to indicate that fears uf a general strike have vanished. HEAVY RAIN IN QUEENSLAND. TRAFFIC INTERFERED WITH. Received January 10, 9 a.m. BRISBANE, January 10. There have been heavy rains in the north. Railway traffic is much interfered with.

CHAPLAIN OF THE NIMROD. AN INV.JTATION. Received January 10, 9 a.m. MELBOURNE. January 10. The Rev. Mr Saxon* .curate at St., Peter's, Eastern Hill, was unanimously invited by the officers and crew of the Antarctic exploring ship Nimrod to accompany the expedition as chaplain. Mr Saxon joins the supplementary vessel. <■•■■■.

CLOSER SETTLEMENT. A NEW SOUTH WALES ESTATE. Received January 10, 9 a.m. SYDNEY, January I<\ Ben Lomond, one, of the finest estates on the New England tableland, is to be subdivided for closer settlement. FEDERAL CAPITAL. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD APPLY FOR SITE. Received January 10, 10.17 a.m. SYDNEY, January 10. The Minister for Works, speaking at a function, said that if the Federal Government would only ask the State Government for a federal capita", site the Government would be able to reply in a very few hours. NEWCASTLE WHARF LAB- < OUREKS' STRIKE. SYDNEY LABOUR COUNCIL SUPPORTS. Received January 10, 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, January 10. , The Sydney Labour Council passed a resolution in support of the wharf labourers at Newcastle. Mr Kavanagh, ex-president, raised a point whether the council was consistent in doing so. Delegates had, night after night, cried out in sup--port of arbitration, and when a union w,hich had an award became dissatisfied with it the men went on strike. The council decided to support them. TASMANIAN CABLES. EASTERN COMPANY'S TERMS DECLINED. Received January 10, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 10. The Federal Government has declined the Eastern ' Extension Cable Company's terms in connection with the proposed purchase of the Tasmanian cable. Specifications for two new cables, to be laid before a certain date in 1909, have been sent Home by mail. (The Company is asking £39,000 for cables, buildings and balance of subsidy).