AUSTRALIA .

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 9

AUSTRALIA .

United Pre 63 Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, May 20. Ml'-H TIDES. During extraordinarily high tides at Alladulla a few days ago, tho water, with .startling suddenness, broke right over tha wharf, doing much damage. The steamer Eden's mooring ropes broke, and the vessel, to save herself, had to steam out. Sho had a trying tiinc, sometimes almost standing on end. A NEW ZEALANP ASSOCIATION. At a m ee ti"'g °* ** New Zoalapders it w r as decided to form a New Zealand Association. . Tho membership is limited to those who have resided at least f" ve years iii the Dominion. A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. The Rev. Mr Danks, general Secretary of the Methodist Foreign Mission, informed an interviewer that a punitive expedition had been organised to qapturo -the murderers of tho Binskin family in the Solomon Island in October last. The murderers had so illtreated two -qf the captured natives that they died also. It was {alleged that they had ill-treated other natives and were guilty of other excesses. THE BRUNSWICK EXPLOSION. MELBOURNE, May 20. Shaw, Crabtree's assistant, was found guilty of setting fire to Crabtree's shop in Brunswick street, by which an explosion.. pccujrod, wrecking the adjacent premises. Sentence was deferred. MOISTURE IN BUTTER The Butter Conference passed a resolution against the proposal tp reduce the moisture standard from 16 to 14 per cent. A STORMY PASSAGE. ADELAIDE. May 19. The steamer Port Chalmers, f ron j I<opdon, after rounding the. Cape of Good Hope, struck a tidal wave, which crashed upon the deck with terrific force, doing a ereat deal of damage. The conditions continued disturbed till withip two clays of reaching Australia. Oil had tp be used to calm the waters.