AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7813, 4 June 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

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COURSING.

SYDNEY, ' June S. The National Coursing Association's "Waterloo Cup was won by Mr Bladen's Bulwark. Mr Keighcry's Penfold 'Hyland was runner-up. Tho Purse was won by Messrs Taylor and Yatqs's Lieutenant. Captain Weter's Tho Parson was runner-up. THE LATE PRIMATE.' Tho i estate of the late Primate was valued for probate at £1561. TERRORISTS IN AUSTRALIA. i • r! f) MELBOURNE, Jun& 3. The' Russian authority who niade the previous statement on the subject,' says Australia?' has allowed a nice "lot of criminals- in. TJhe murderer of Father Gapiwnilived in Melbourne fora year; land.is'at present in Paris. - '■- - hiji!.- A PERILOUS PASSAGE''^ [p The Esther arrived from • Fokianga leaking badly. She encountered , severe ■ gales on May. 2 and 3 and sprang a leak. She ran into another gale on, Wednesday and was roughly handled. A portion of her bulwarks was smashed and the leak increased. The crew were kept hard at work at the piimps. There was four feet of water in tho hold when she reached harbour. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. ADELAIDE. June 3. Mr Peake, Acting-Premier, has accepted a commission to form a Ministry and has been given a week to complete it. THE TO'BI- ISLAND DISPUTE. BRISBANE, June 3. j Captain'-Strachan, in the course, of a lecture, announced that he had,told the Tobi 'boys aboard the' Envy 'that they would have to be handed over to the Germans, and tho boys had, refused to go.; He did not' recognise tho Federal Government ih this matter. It was an Imperial affair, and ho only-recogni-sed the Admiral commanding - the Station. So long as he lived he would not hand the boys over to the German Government. '. ••

THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

Received June 4, 10.40 a.m. - MELBOURNE, June 4. The House of Representatives has adjourned till the 23rd. > PASSENGERS FOR NEW- ZEALAND FREMANTLE, Juno 4. The Ortona has arrived with the following passengers for New Zealand: Messrs Dutton,, Grubbers, Pilling and Trotter, Mesdames Brown, Bubbins, Heather and Dawson and Miss Shera.