AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9085, 9 May 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A FATAL ACCIDENT. I TRAIN COLLIDES WITH A COACH. COACHDRIVER KILLED. Received Mav 8, 10.25 a>sn, SYDNEY, May 8. A coal train ran into a w&eh aff BeHambie. The coach was smashed to atoms. The driver, a man named Benwwft,, was killed. Two passengers were seriously and eleven slightly injured, 'DEATH FROM PLAGUE. Received May 8, 10.20 a,m. SYDNEY,. May 8. A child three years old died at Waterloo, a suburb of Sydney, from' plague.

SWEATING IN SYDNEY. Received May 8, 10.25 a.m. SYDNEY, May 8. A. member of the Clerks' Union, states that 90 per cent, of the workhouses in Sydney sweat their clerks ; and evade the early closing laws, BROKEN HILL, A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. Received May 8, 10.25 a.m, SYDNEY, May 8. A delegate who had visited Broken Hill gave the Presbyterian Assembly a lurid picture of the irreligious condition of Broken Hill, He declared that forces were organised there against Christianity as in no other city in the Commonwealth. They had an aggressive and almost triumphant Socialism that made scorn of aacred things. Children were gathered into schools on .Monday and taught to beware of church and ministers, while meetirgs of labour unions were held on Sundays. AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES. INSPECTED BY SCOTCH DELEGATES. Received May 8, 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, May 8. Representatives'of five thousand Scottish fishermen are ins. ecting the New South Wales fisheries. One of the delegates expressed the opinion that he had seen sufficient to convince him that there was an unlimited supply of fish on the coast, and that millions of tons of fish could be converted into fodder fertilisers, giving employment to fifteen thousand men. A big canning export trade could be established. It is expected that a large emigration of Scottish fishermen will take place as the result of the delegates' inspection.