AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9048, 6 February 1908, Page 5

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ROUGH WEATHER. THE MOERAKI IN A GALE. Received February 5, 10.45 a.m. SYDNEY, February 3. The Moeraki was spoken on Monday morning 150 miles from Sydney thrashing into a heavy gale. The timber fleet experienced a rough handling on Saturday and Sunday in the Tasman Sea.

A "CHRISTIAN" COLONY.

Received February 5, 10.20 a.m. ADELAIDE, February 5. A prospectus is being privately circulated in Adelaide of a limited liability company entitled "The Christian Colonists, Limited," with a capital of a million in pound shares. The object is to found a Christian colony in connection with the transcontinental railway proposal. Scriptural phraseology and other persuasive means are employed h\the prospectus to induce the public to subscribe. The locality'of the proposed colony is not stated. A JUDGESHIP. RESIGNATION OF SIR WILLIAM OWEN. Received February 5, 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, February 5. Sir William Owen has resigned his judgeship. THE KOROMIKO. HER CARGO TO BE DUMPED. Received February 5, 11 a.m. PERTH, February 5. The cargo of damaged superphosphates on the Union S.S. Co.'s turret steamer Koromiko will be dumpad at sea, as it is useless. . The loss is estimated at £3,600. THE UNITED STATES FLEET. AN INVITATION FROM SYDNEY. Received February 5, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, February 5. The City Council decided to issue, thiough President Roosevelt, an invitation to Admiral Evans' fleet to visit Sydney while en route to San Francisco. NEWCASTLE COAL-MINING , TROUBLE. FURTHER STRIKE OF BOYS. Received February 6. 12.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Februarys. The boys of the Dudley colliery, who went out on strike have resumed work. The special Court met only to find that the boys at Burwood colliery on some trifling grievance had thrown that mine idle. The Court thereupon adjourned till Monday.