BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9034, 22 January 1908, Page 5

BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA.

A FRONTAGE OF FORTY MILES. SETTLERS RUSH TO RIVER. PHEEP PERISH BY THOUSAND,S. ! Received January 21, 10.38 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 21. A bush fire of great magnitude, with a frontage of forty miles, is sweeping the Edenhope district, two hundred and sixty miles west of Melbourne. It is supposed it we.s started by a ■■J. swagman's fire. Settlers at Dergholm rushed into the river to save their Jives, leaving their property to burn. Sheep perished by thousands. MUTINY ON A FRENCH CRUISER. STOKERS AND PETTY OFFICERS INTERVENE. Received January 21, 8.40 a.m. PARIS, January 20. Engineers on the French cruiser Victor Hugo mutinied. Stokers and petty officers brought the vessel to Casablarca. JAPANESE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS. EFFECT IN UNITED STATES. < Received January 21, 8.59 p.m. NEW YORK, January 21. Two thousand two hundred and thirty-four fewer Japanese entered the United States in December last than in December 1906. The authorities at Washington attributed 1 this reduction-to the effectiveness of the Japanese immigration restrictions. ; NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTRY. Received January 21, 9.45 p.m. SYDNEY, January 21. "7 In connection with the re-anange- *" ment ol the Ministry, consequent on the creation of an independent portfolio of Agriculture, Mr Perry takes charge of the new department, Mr Wood becomes Minister of Mines, and Mr Hague Minister or Labour and Industry. Mr Anderson, Direcor of the Intelligence Department, has been appointed Under-Secretary of Agriculture. TRAINS IN COLLISION. NINE PERSONS KILLED, Received January 21, 10.2 p.m. ROME, January 21. The Milan-Rome train, the passengers on which included ten Italian senators, collided. with a stationary train on the Acquabella bridge. A third train from Bergamo crashed into the wreckage. Nine persons were killed and many injured. The Senators and M. Garcano, Minister of the Treasury, escaj e.l. A WORLD MISSION. STUDY OF ANTHROPOLOGY. Received NEW YORK, January 20. The Field Museum, Chicago, is despatching Dr Dorsey, the curator, on a world mission, to study anthropology. He will devote six months to the South Pacific, Australia, and Jvfew Zealand. (Dr Dorsey travelled and conducted anthropological investigations in South America for the World's Columbia Exposition in 1891-2. He was appointed curator of anthropology V at the Field Columbian Museum in r 1898.) SELLING MILITARY SECRETS. A GERMAN TAILOR SENTENCED. Received January 21, 8.40 a.m. BERLIN, January 20. William Michaelis, a tailor, of Leipsic, was sentenced to six years' penal servitude for selling military information to the French authorities. THE TIFLIS MAIL ROBBERY. RUSSIAN TERRORISTS CONCERNED. Received January 21, 8.40 a.m. PARIS, January 20. fit- The two Russian terrorists arrested in Paris were accomplices in the robbery of the Tiflis mail in July last, when £25,000 in notes was stolen.

(A cablegram, published yesterday, stated that the Paris police had arrested two Russian terrorist?, ami claimed to. have secured documents revealing the whole of the organisation of a revolutionary movement. Among the papers seized were |also letters containing details directly affecting the personal safety of the Czar.)