CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 273, 23 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by klbct&ic tblegbaph— -ooptbiqhi.] [pbr pbbBB association.] HOW TO MAKE MONEY. Sydney, May 22. Giving evidence at the~Arbitration Court, Samuel Hordern stated that the firm of Anthony Hordern spent £20,000 or more annually in advertisements. One year they spent £35,000. MINING FATALITY. Melbourne, May 22. Two miners, Thompson and Robinson, were working in a shaft in Adelaide Reef mine, and when the driver failing to receive a signal to hoist the cage examined it, he found the cage stuck in 150 feet of water in the shaft. It is believed the shaft was sunk close to an old drive from which an inrush of water drowned the two men before they had time to give the signal. THE PLAGUE. Sydney, May 22. A case of plague has occurred at Annandale. The patient worked in Sussex street in the city.Melbourne, May 22. A wharf laborer at GoUingwood has been quarantined owing to suspicion of plague. * QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS. Brisbane, May 22. Postal votes are coming in very slowly and some seats are still in doubt. The latest estimate of parties is: — Opposition, 30; Ministerial, 24; Labour, 18. THE ISLAND HURRICANE. Sydney, May 22. Letters received by German residents of Sydney give further details of the hurricane at the Caroline Islands. Oleai and Ifaluka appear to have been the centre of the disturbance which raged with terrific fury. The other principal islands of the group also suffered severely, but the people of Ponape, Ruk, Yap, and Pelew escaped. According to an officer of the German surveying corvette Planet, which was despatched to the assistance of the distressed Islands, not a house remains standing on Oleai, and every cocoanut palm was stripped. Besides 200 persons drowned at Oleai, 25 natives perished at Ifalulk. Brisbane, May 22. While the hurricane was at its height a tidal wave swept Oleai. The German Commissioner was visiting the island at the time, and his schooner was blown to sea, but eventually reached Saipan, in the Mariamne Group. The Resident Commissioner at Saipan at once organised a relief expedition, and but for this probably the whole of the survivors on Oleai would have perished of starvation, as no boat was due to call at the island for four months. The island of Mokeffloke suffered considerably, all food supplies being destroyed. The Planet rescued a hundred natives from this island, and took them to Yap to save them dying of starvation.'/ EMPIRE DAY. (Received May 23rd, 10.0 a.m.) Sydney, May 23. There are extensive preparations for the celebration of Empire Day in the schools. EARLY CLOSING. Samuel Hordern informed the Arbitration Court that the Early •.Closing Act had benefited his firm in a way he did not desire, at the expense of the smaller shops. UNBEARABLE CONDITIONS. An official of the Coal Lumpers' Union published a letter in the press reviewing the situation and setting out what is described as the unbear- - able and unequal conditions under which the employers are attempting to force tiie lumpers to work. THE TIMBER STRIKE. Perth, May 23. An injunction has beeit- granted against three members of the Legislative Assembly and Senator *Pearce as members of the Timber Workers' Association, restraining them from abetting the strike in the timber trade or operating with moneys of the Timber Workers' Defenoe Committee lying in the^ank, except by the leave of the Court. Mr Pearce states that money received from all sections of the community has been used for relieving women and children suffering ' as a result of the strike. . HOME, BOYS, HOME. Melbourne, May 23-. Three steamers are coming from South Africa with over 1,200 repatriated Australians. MR DEAKIN. A strong feeling continues in labor circles regarding Mr Deakin's recent utterances in ' England. Mr Prendergast declared that Mr Deals in had been particularly ungrateful, like tho dog that .turns and bites the hand that feeds it. His. was but the power kept in power by the Labour Party and there was no hope of his remaining in power without its support. He will pave a sudden ' - awakening one of these days and he will disappear before the party is pledged to a solid platform, which it will carry' out in its entirety.