AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1907, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[I-BES3 ASSOCIATION.] THE ADELAIDE CUSTOMS CASES. (Received February 6, 9.42 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Tucker and Forwood, who have been implicated in the alleged Customs frauds, have made statements denying the charges. Tucfeer declares that anything done to rob the Customs was done without his knowledge. Forwood denied that there was any agreement with Tucker to rob the Customs A LONG DRIFT. MELBOURNE, This Day. A bottle thrown from the Antarctic ship Discovery in December, 1903, ha« beon washed ashore in the vicinity of Ca-pe Schanck, in Bass's Strait, between Port Phillip and Western Port, Viotoria. SHIPPING TROUBLE SETTLED. SYDNEY, 4th FebTuary. The inter-State shipping trouble is I settled, a meeting , of the Wharf Labourers' Union having endorsed the agreement arrived at with the Steamship Owners' { Association. PLAGUE IN SYDNEY, SYDNEY, 4th February. The person who was > suffering from i plague at Kempsey is dead. WOOL SALES. i SYDNEY.This Day. I At the wool ealfs competition for all I [ good-conditioned sorts is keen at last j I week's rates. Greasy sold up to 13£ d. j THE RECENT CRICKET TROUBLE. SYDNEY, This Day. The Cricket Association has agreed to lift the suspension fiom playere if the latter will make application. DENTAL CONGRESS. SYDNEY, This Day. The Australian Dental Congress nas opened. The conference is largely attended. DISAPPOINTED AUSTRALIANS. SYDNEY, This Day. The eieamer Kent brought thirty-five disappointed Australians from South I Africa, a number of them being penni-/ J less. They give direful accounis of the i labour conditions in Africa.