AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

North Otago Times, 15 January 1906, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph.— (Per Press Association.) Received Jan. 13, at 10,3. a.m. Sydney, Jan. 13, The Observatory in a special forecast, predicts very 'heavy weather in the Tasinan Sea. . > „„u.The barque Itata had 300 tons of saltpetre aboard. Tho captain and the crew were asleep, lightly clad, and lost everything. The vessel is now a smouldering shell, the, decks blown out, the sides buckled, and the masts gone. - - ' Perth, Jan. 12. . A case of plague, the patient being \i toy, is' reported in'the city. The Neras patient is progressing satisfactorily- : A train laden with sleepers bolted a 'Collie and left the rails. The driver ami fireman jumped off uninjured. The onl) passenger (Rickaby) was Wiled. The explosion of a charge in the Uwalu mine killed fovo men named Venosta and Trinca. Received Jan. 13, at 10.3 a.m. Sydney, Jan. w, The stevedores' agreement applies to the grata Jraitdlers.' These recently obtained hijrlicr rates, 'which arc now reduced to the old level. A lighthouse-keeper at Wollongong harpooned a monster kingfish. He was un>#e to disengage his line 'win his arm, and was dragged i'nto the water and round the harbor. He was rescued man exhausted condition. Tho fish hem* captured, •

'jueiDouniu, *"• Last year's 'gold yield was 717,10# ounces, lO.Wuzs below the previous year. Received Jain. 15, at 12.58 a.m. Sydney, Jan. 11. The coal aboard the Itata is still bum-in-r," The vessel Is now only a shell. _ Sailed (2.30 p.m. ycstcrday)-Monowai. Melbourne, Jan. U. A rri ved—Warrim 00.