AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9040, 16 March 1908, Page 5

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I INDIAN MUTINY VETERANS. PROVIDED WITH COMPORTS. SYDNEY, March 14. Through the efforts of the Womeu's Empire League a number of Indian Mutiny veterans have been enabled to leave the Rockwood Benevolent Asylum and will be provided with comforts. RECENT RAILWAY ACCIDENT. DEPARTMENTAL ENQUIRY. SYDNEY, March 14. A Departmental Board of Enquiry found that the Blandford accident, in which eleven persons were injured, was due to a refrigerator car being attached to the engine. It recommended that in future refrigerator cars should be run at the rear of the brake-van. FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE INUNDATED. Received March 16, 12.5 a.m. BRISBANE, March 15. Over 14 inches of rain has fallen in 24 hours in several districts. Eleven inches of rain has fallen in Brisbane, which is now inundated. No details from the country are available, as the telegraph lines are interrupted. PTOMAINE POISONING. Received March 16, 12.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, March 15. Seventy persons were taken ill at a picnic at Mornir.gton through eating ox-tongue. Fourteen were sent to the hospital. Ptomaine poisoning id the cause. GENERAL CABLESReceived March 15, 5.25 p.m. PARIS, March 14. The imports of France during January and February decreased by half-a-million sterling, and the exports by three millions sterling, as compared with the same period last year. A bill haa been introduced into the French Chamber of Deputies authorising the construction of the national canai from Harfleur to Gennevilliers at a coat of £18,880,000. LONDON, March 14. A Bulgarian band murdered all the monks at the Gallopetro monastery in Carafirn, Macedonia, and .also six other Greeks. The first automobile seen in Jerusalem arrived yesterday. It was owned and driven by Charles Griddon, of Boston, Massachusetts, who has now motored through 37 countries, and covered 43,166 miles nf the 50,000 miles he projects covering. (Mr Griddon visited New Zealand and passed through Masterton). NEW YORK, March 13.

Newspapers state that Evelyn Thaw, wife of Harry Thaw, the murderer of Stanford White, receives from the Thaw family £IO,OOO and an annuity of £3,U00. (Mrs Thaw is about to sue for a divorce on the ground that her husband, who -is in an asylum, was insane at the time of their marriage.) LONDON, March 13.

King Edward's greater vigour compared with last year is shown by the longer, brisker walks he takes, and his keener interest in sport.

The New Smith Wales AgentGeneral's department reports that thousands of intending immigrants are available in Scotland if the shipping companies will reduce thirdclass fares.

Lord Armstrong has assigned his estate to his creditors. The liabilities total £650,000, and the assets £147,000. Lord Armstrong inherited two millions a few years since. He is no longer a director of the Elswick Works.

An echo of the South African War was heard in the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Saturday. It is alleged that several officers and men, who served in the war in 1901, have never received their full pay for that year, and there is a movement to petition Parliament on their behalf. In the meantime Lieutenant Charles Cribb, who served with Colonel Parker, and is now resident at Greymouth, has instituted proceedings against Colonel Parker in the Magistrate's Court at Greymouth, the claim being for pay during the months of November and December, 1901, amounting to £56 8s 6d, or, with interest at 8 per cent., £74 14s. A motion was brought before the Supreme Court, on Saturday, on behalf of Colonel Parker, to remove the case to the Supreme Court. Counsel stated that intricate questions of law were involved It was contended that the commanding officer was not personally liable for the debt, which, if due, should be paid by the British Government. An order for the removal of the case from Greymouth to Wellington was made. "I have much pleasure," says Mr N* M'Curdy, Dipton, N.Z., "in recommending Chamberlain's Tablets for all disorders of the digestive organs. I can truthfully say that I have never derived so much satisfaction from any medicine as I have from Chamberlain's Tablets. They are mild and gentle in their action and leave no bad after effect, such as constipation, and in this respect are superior to pills. I make a point of recommending them to my friends, and all who have used them are loud in their praise." For sale by all dealers.

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