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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 21 January 1908, Page 5

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REPORTED TORNADO AT ADELAIDE.

NO_DETAILS AS YET. , 3 Received January 21, 1.10 a.m. SYDNEY, January 20. An unconfirmed rnport has reached Melbourne that a tornado struck Adelaide, and did a lot of damage. No details are available LABOUR TROUBLES AT NEWCASTLE. COAL PITS AGAIN IDLE. Received January 21, 1.10 a.m. ■ - I SYDNEY, January 20. The Duckenfield, Burwood and Shortland pits at Newcastle are again idle owing to labour troubles. MR KEIK HARDIE IN t MELBOURNE. ' AN ADDRESS TO SOCIALISTS. NO DISLOYALTY IN INDIA. Received January 20, 12.45 p.m. MELBOURNE, January 20. Addressing a Socialistic gathering, ■ Mr Keir Hardie said there was no such thing as disloyalty or sedition in India to-day. The alleged seditions were the distortions of interested persons, who twisted local grievances into questions of national import. When in India, he had said the i people should be given some effective j voice over the control of Indian ! affairs, and he said the same to-day. Unless something was done soon there would arise a revolutionary movement, and the time might come when the British Empire would be found fighting for its very It might regret the day it refused justice to the people of India, CANADIAN COASTAL TRADE. TO BE RESTRICTED TO BRITISH SHIPS. Received Janjary 20, 11.10 p.m. OTTAWA, January 20. At the beginning of 1909 the Canadian coastal trade will be restricted to British ships, owing to an agitation by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shipowners. t THE DRUCE CASE. CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST MISS ROBINSON. Received January 20, 8.35 a.m. LONDON, January 19. The police testimony, in the charge of perjury against Miss Mary Robinson, alleged that Miss Robinson was J the daughter of a policeman named Webb, and that she married a butcher named Robinson. When told this, Miss Robinson exclaimed: "Good God! Who told you this?" Miss Robinson's sister has been traced to Hull. (Miss Robinson was brought before the Court on Saturday and remanded for a "week). THE AMERICAN FLEET. PLOT TO DESTROY PART OF IT. Received January 20, 11.10 p.m. LONDON, January 20. Reuter's New York correspondent reports that according to a Rio de Janeiro telegram the Brazilian police have discovered an anarchist plot to destroy part of the American fleet while it is in the harbour at Rio de Janeiro. A man, named Jean Fedeher, residing at Petropolis, is said to be the chief conspirator, but anarchists in other suburbs and some abroad are i co-operating. (Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Brazil, and stands on the west side of onejof the]most magnificent natural harbours in the world.) CHARGE OF FRAUD. ■ IMPERSONATING A COUNTESS. MASQUERADING IN MELBOURNE. Received January 20, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, January 19. Rose Robinson, a fashionably attired woman of thirty years, was charged at the Police Court with fraud, namely, impersonating the Countess of Cottenham. The Countess testified that Robinson hacl in her name in Melbourne, and that she had been annoyed for years by Australians calling who claimed acquaintance with her. She believed Robinson was once a Mrs Cottenham, but had divorced her husband. - I