AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9035, 28 February 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

THE OPIUM FRAUDS. Received February 27, TO a.m. MELBOURNE, February 27. Some of the Customs officials are not surprised at the Adelaide opium frauds. One official estimated that the Customs losses in the various States totalled £IOO,OOO per annum. (A police raid on the premises of Ellison, a shop-keeper at Port Adelaide, revealed a "plant" of opium in the garden. Ellison confessed that he was the Adelaide and Broken Hill agent of a gigantic smuggling company, which had establishments at Port Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, and in other parts of Australia.) BAIL UP! SCENE ON A RACECOURSE. Received February 27, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, February 27. Just before the chief event at Camawatha races, a masked man stuck up the gatekeepers. Presenting a revolver at the men he demanded the takings. The gatekeepers tried to secure the robber, and in the struggle the robber deliberately fired the revolver at one of the keepers. Fortunately he missed, and then escaped. FATAL FALLS. TWO MEN KILLED. Received February 27, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, February 27. A Kalgoorlie miner named Hutchan fell into the Golden Horseshoe mine, and was killed. A companion named Griffiths, on going to the assistance of Hutchen, met with a similar fate. CASE OF PLAGUE IN SYDNEY. Received February 27, 11.38 p.m. SYDNEY, February 27. A lad named O'Brien, working in Drutt street, Sydney, has been attacked with the plague. AN ARCHDEACON'S RESIGNATION. Received February 27, 11.38 p.m. SYDNEY, February 27. . Archdeacon Abbott, of Tamworth, is sending-in his resignation to the Bishop of the Diocese. He has pointed out that in five years he has received £1,952 from the parish, and expended on its work the sum of £1,750. He had been unable to save any money out of which to replace the necessary things which after five years' wear and tear were almost worn out.