AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9048, 14 March 1908, Page 5

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WHEAT CROPS BEING HELD FOR A RISE. Received March 13, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, March 13. Railway returns indicate that wheat-growers are holding crops for a rise. MR J. CARRUTHERS RESIGNS HIS SEAT IN PARLIAMENT. Received March 13, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, March 13. Mr J. Carruthers, ex-Premier, resigned his seat in Parliament prior to taking his departure for London as representative at the Franco-British exhibition. ACCIDENT TO BLUEJACKETS. PETTY OFFICER DROWNED. Received March 13, 10.19 a.m. HOBART, March 13. During a naval regatta a number of bluejackets were standing on the forecastle head of H. M.S. Challenger, watching the proceedings, when a support gave way and precipitated them into the water. A petty officer named Richards was drowned. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES BILL. Received March 13, 11.15 p.m. SYDNEY, March 13. In the Assembly Mr Wade (Premier), in introducing the Industrial Disputes Bill, said that the present Arbitration Act would expire at the end of June. The new measures proposed to keep up the continuing of awards so far as the present Act is concerned. It provides that after June next all disputes shall be investigated by a tribunal possessing none of the demerits of the present system and all the merits gatherable from other systems. The object of the bill was to have every industry represented; have the tribunal called together without delay; make the presence of a lawyer no longer essential and to make it clear that there was no appeal from an award. KILLED BY A FALL OF EARTH. Received March 14, 12.56 a.m. SYDNEY, March 13. Ja'Ties Wilson, a miner, was killed by a fall of earth at Broken Hill. He leaves a wife and family in New Zealand. THE GLENAHIRA OUTRAGE. THOSE TWO REPORTS. MR BIRRELL EXPLAINS. Received March 13, 7.53 a.m. LONDON, March 12. In the House of Commons, Mr Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking in connection with the Glenahira outrage, declared that Inspector Preston's report of 7th September, was modified into the report of 11th, because the law officers found that it contained suggestions and also matters of fact, some of which had occurred before he arrived on the scene. The second report was prepared and signed without any body's interference or suggestion. Mr Birrell denied that it was altered, and offered to produce the original first report. He added that if both sides wanted a public enquiry regarding the Glenahira outrage, the last thing the Government wished to do was to conceal anything or keep anything back. Mr Redmond gave notice of a motion in favour of a public enquiry into the matter. Irish members and unions support the demand that Inspector Preston's report of the 7th-should be issued. That report states that whoever exploded the bomb did not intend to kill Lord Ashtown or seriously damage the house. THE DEUCE CASE. CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST MRS HAMILTON. Received March 13, 11.8 p.m. LONDON, March 13. Mrs Hamilton, who is charged with perjury in connection with the Druce case, has again been remanded. Sir Charles Mathews, leading counsel for the prosecution, states that she s a daughter of Robert Atkinson, a flax manufacturer, and that the story she related with regard to the Duke of Portland is a myth.