AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13364, 4 March 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALIA.

United Prem Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. NEW STEAMERS.

SYDNEY, Marah 3.

Advices have boon received that two now Aberdeen liners of the Petriolea typo are to be built for the Australian trade. COAL IN NEW GUINEA. Mr M-ackay states that the coal discoveries made during the expedition to Papua are practically inaccessible at pre-rent, but in time they will prove of great value. DISASTROUS FIRE. MELBOURNE, March 3. Messrs Harrison Brothers largo store a* Wangaratta was destroyed by fire. TTie damage is estimated at £14,000. LABOUR ORGANISATION. Tho Amalgamated Mines Association at Bendigo rejected the Trade Union Congress's resolution in favouring tho federation of the whole of the labour organisations in Australasia. ASIATICS IN AUSTRALIA. Thirteen out of fifteen Chinese seeking admission to tli© Commonwealth were refused permission to land. HEAVY RAINS. PERTH, March 3. Torrential rain is falling at Northam. Four inches fell in twenty minutes. There are several railway washaway s. SEQUEL TO THE NAVAL DISASTER. (Received March 4th, 12.48 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 3.

The petitions from Captain Hansen, of the Dun more, and the Merchant Ser-\-ico Guild, asking for the restoration of tho captain's certificate or the rehearing of tho case, havo not been ao? ceded to by tho Governor.

(The Dun more ran down-a naval pinnace in tow in Sydney Harbour, nnd Icf>s of life resulted. The ilarine Court put the blamo on the coxswain of tin* towing launch, nnd on Captain Hansen, but tho Coroner found that the coxswain nlono was to Maine. Captuin Hansen's supporters* —among whom is the "'l>»ily Telegraph"'—contend that he was following a well-known rule of the sea, and thnt he was punished for not doing .something that ho was forbidden to do by nauticnl regulations.]