AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 112, 15 May 1906, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] THE SYDNEY LABOR MARKET. (Received May 15, 9.41 a.m.) - SYDNEY, May 14. Tlie report of the Director of Labor for April shows" that there is a brisk demand for labor, while the number of unemployed in the city is comparatively low. A ROUGH VOYAGE. HOBART, May 14. The steamer Matatua, bound from Lo/idon to Auckland, called in to land a crew hand named Rorton, who had broken both arms by falling down a hatchway. ' ~ The vessel experienced very bad weather between the Cape and here. THEFT OF GOLD. PERTH, May 14. Gold has been stolen from the Golden Pole mine' at Kalgoorlie for some months past. At least five hundred ounces have been missed, which are said to have been lodged in the Bank. The perpetrators are not yet discovered. EARTHQUAKE. SYDNEY, May 15. A slight shock of earthquake was experienced twenty miles from Goulburn. THE JAPANESE SQUADRON. MELBOURNE, May 15.* The officers and crew of the Japanese Squadron are the recipients of considerable hospitality. NEW ZEALAND LESSONS. ADELAIDE, May 15. Mr Norton,.manager of the Government produce export trade, left on the Ist for New Zealand to study the methods at the freezing works and produce export depots. THE CABLE-REPAIRING STEAMER. SYDNEY, May 15. The Recorder reaches here to-night from Singapore. THE EXTREME PENALTY. " BRISBANE, May 14. A Cingalese <named Johannes, for the murder of a policeman at Ma okay, and Twadega, a South Sea Islander, for the murder of a boy near Maekay, were executed. Death in both cases was instantaneous.