AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9029, 16 January 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CABLE NEWS.

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A BUSY PORT,

GREAT INCREASE OF SHIPPING. Received January 15, 9.47 a.m. SYDNEY, January 15. The tonnage of vessels that entered Port Jackson last year aggregated 7,192,000, an increase of 703,900 tons. The vessels carried 100,286 passengers, an increase of 17.690. OBITUARY. , , AN EX-VICTORIAN ASTRONOMER. Received January 15, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 15. The death is announced of Mr R. Ellery, formerly Government Astronomer; aetat 81. HEAT WAVE. ONE HUNDRED AND TEN DEGREES. Received January 15, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, January 15. The heat in the interior is very severe, the thermometer registering HOdeg. at Broken Hill. ' - —- SHORTAGE OF WATER AND FEED. Received January 15, 10 a,m. SYDNEY, January 15. The effects of the continued dry weather is beginning to be seriously felt. In many districts there is a shortage of water and feed. . TRADE WITH]THE EAST. Received January 15, 9.47 a.m. SYDNEY, January 15. Cabinet has decided to grant substantial encouragement to trade with tne East. BROKEN HILL MINING. DEEP SINKING;

Received January 15, 9.74 a.m. SYDNEY, January 15. A lode has been cut at a depth of 1,400 feet in the Broken Hill Proprietary mine. This is a greater depth at which an ore-carrying lode has been struck than any along the line.

A TWO MILLION LOAN.

Received January 15, 9.47 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 15. The State Government has forwarded to London the balance of the money required to take up the two million loan maturing in April. No money will be required from investors in London.

A VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL QUEEN. f

Received January 15, 9.47 a.m. MELBOURNE,' January 15. Jennie Green, the aboriginal queen, died in an asylum for the insane, aged seventy years.