AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9031, 18 January 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—Hv Electric Telegraph Copyright.

ADELAIDE'S PORT.

NEW OUTER HARBOUR - - /OPENED.

Received January 17, 10 a.m. ADELAIDE, January 17. The Governor (Sir G. le Hunte) officially opened the outer harbour, constructed at a cost of half a million. It provides a thousand feet of wharfage. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.'s Oruba was the first big steamer to berth in the new harbour.

TASMANIAN CABLES. A COMMONWEALTH UNDERTAKING. Received January 17, 10 a.m. .MELBOURNE, Jaruary 17. Negotiations with the Eastern Extension Company for the purchase of the Tasmanian cables having so far failed, the Federal Government is inviting tenders for the manufacture and laying' of two cables, between Victoria and Tasmania, at an estimated cost of between £60,000 and £70,000. Tenders, accompanied by a deposit of £I,OOO, close on April 14th.

(The Eastern Extension Company asked £39,000 for cables, buildings and Balance of subsidy, but this the Federal Government could not see its way to give),

WHARF LABOURERS' STRIKE,

CONGESTION OF SHIPPING AT NEWCASTLE. THE WARRIMOO DELAYED. Received January 17, 9.20 a.m. -,: i SYDNEY, January 17. . The.steamer-Warrimoo's departure for New Zealand has been' postponed till; -10 o'clock to-morrow -night, owing-to' inability to obtain bunker coaTat Newcastle. A number of other inter-State passenger steamers have been seriously 'delayed. The cause of the congestion 13 the rush of vessels to coal after the late strike. THE FIRE AT GANMAIN. Received January 18, 12.27 a.m. SYDNEY, January 17. The damage done by the fire at Ganmain, yesterday, when six business premises were destroyed, amounts to £8,500.

SCULLING. Received January IK, 12.27. a.m. SYDNEY, January 17. Harry Pearce ha 3 lodged a deposit to row R. Arnst, of New Zealand, for £IOO aside. : The match will probably be rowed on the Parramat'ta River in three months' time. MOTORING FROM SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE. AN ATTEMPT THAT FAILED BY AN HOUR. ' Rectived January 17, 9.45 a.m. SYDNEY, January i 7. Messrs Kellow and James, who left Melbourne in a 15 horse-power motor at 2.30 o'clock on Thursday morning, with the object of making the journey to Sydney in 24 hours just failed in "the attempt, arriving in Sydney about 3.3P this morning. Received January 18, 12.27 a.m. SYDNEY, January 17. Th 3 motorists failed in their attempt through taking the wrong road when nearing Sydney.