AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9026, 13 January 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CABLE NEWS.

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THE DAY DAWN MURDER. A COLD-BLOODED ATROCITY. PERTH, January 11. Particulars of the murder of Clinton, a blacksmith, at Day Dawn, whose body was found down a mining shaft, show that it was a most cold-blooded affair. The victim was shot in the throat while asleep, and hie head battered in. (Three men named Bloomer, Smith and Poiter have been arrested on a charge of murdering Clinton.)

ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. STATEMENT BY CULPRIT. MELBOURNE, January 11. The man, named Mackay, a farm laDourer,'„charged with attempting to derail the express at Hoisham, by placing fi>e sleepers on the line, said he did it to see what the train would do. (The engine cut through the obstruction.) DECREASE OF CRIME. SYDNEY, January 11. The report of the superintendent of police shows a decrease in serious crime in Sydney, but an increase in drunkenness.

A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT Received January 13, 1.8 a.m. SYDNEY, January 12. The Life Saving Carnival, the outcome of the recent beach bathing fatalities, whic"h took place yesterday at Newcastle, provided a sensational incident. Whils the members of the Manly Life Saving Club were giving a display, a pilot boat, with a crew of five, stationed in the surf in readiness in the event of an accident, capsized in the heavy rollers. The spectators and other swimmers thinking that it was part of the programme took little notice until the men were clinging to the boat in an exhausted condition. Visiting life savers then vainly attempted to rescue the men, and the rocket brigade also failed to get a line out. Eventually the men were rescued in a distressed condition, while drifting out to sea, by the occupants of a fishing boat in the vicinity.

AGRICULTURAL SITUATION IN INDIA..

GERMANY'S NAVAL SCHEME

WAYLAID AND SHOT.

ASIATIC QUESTION IN CANADA,

GOOD RAINS RELIEVE ANXIETY. Received January 12, 4.14 p.m. BOMBAY. January 11. Good rains have fallen in Punjaub (north-west frontier) Suid and West Rajputana and nave enormously alleviated the agricultural situation in India.

HARBOUR CONSTRUCTION AT HELIGOLAND. MILLION AND A-HALF VOTED. BERLIN, January 11. The Reichstag Budget Committee voted one and a-half million sterling for harbour construction in Heligoland. The decision was arrived at after hearing a confidential statement as to the need for the proposed construction. -

AN IRISH INCIDENT. LONDON, January 10. While driving to attend a county council meeting at Clare in order to vote for a particular candidate for the post of returning officer, Councillor O'Lougblin was waylaid and shot in the chest. The bullet was extracted.

METHOD OF STOPPING INFLUX. Received January 12, 4.42 p.m. OTTAWA, January 11. Advices from Victoria, British Columbia, state that the new regulations, providing that immigrants to Canada must book through passage.* from the land of their birth or citizenship, become operative immediately and will scop the influx of Japanese via Hawaii and Hirdus via Hongkong.