AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13194, 4 June 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. (Received June 2, 8.29 p.m.) Sydney, June 2, Thk Spanish Consuls in tho various Stale capitals held receptions to-day, in honour of the royal marriage. _ - •'% RABBIT EXTERMINATION. (Received June 4, 12.12 a.m.) . Sydney, June 3.: The Minister for Lands, replying io a, de» putation yesterday at Gtmdagai, protesting against. Dr. Danj'sz'k experiments in. rabbit extermination, said the Government had not the slightest intention to let loose any disease which had the remotest possibility of endangering the public health. A) large amount of misapprehension existed on. the question, and the opposition camo mostly from those interested in preserving the rabbit industry. The Government were not such absolute lunatics as to take any risk in such a matter. He; would rather walk out of office to-morrow than do anything to make the rabbit industry a permanent one to the disadvantage of the sheep-owner and 1 the farmer. The rabbit must, go if the man. on the land was to stop. "The. Government; had spent £600,000, to .£700.000 in fighting th© rabbit, which was now more numerous than ever. He was within the mark'inisaying that, the shrinkage in capital value of land due. to rabbits, was £8.000,000' to £10,000,000. and within 15 Tears the value

of western division property had decreased by from 80 to GO per centum. ~ ' ' t THE VINCENNES TOWED INTO SYDNEY. Sydney, June 2. The French ship Vincennes, which went ashore at Manly in a gale, on May 24, has been towed off and brought to Sydney safely. : - ■.■ '."'■ ~- ■•■ ' : '•■■■.' Later. ;■ • The ship Vincennes is practically undamaged, , * .„ [The Vincennes is a ship of 1739 tons register. She was bound to Sydney from Yokohama for orders, but was driven ashore on Manly beach during-ta, heavy gale. The crew landed safely.]

FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. Adelaide, June 2. • Calder, first mate of the ship Black*' braes,. has been arrested on a charge of shooting ■; Sedoux, the second mate, in ; the latter's room. The cause of the trouble is unknown. Sedoux hare succumbed to hie wounds. THE MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND. , MEi.iiouitxii, June 2. It has been discovered that. the. Melbourne Cricket Club has no title to the land nowoccupied as a cricket ground. A search into how it came into the club's possession. shows that under the grant setting apart the land for cricket purposes solely tha club was granted merely permissive occupancy. • ' •■ ,' , ' THE JAPANESE SQUADRON. Sydney, June 2. The Japanese Government•'.«»» thanked the people of the Commonwealth through the "Governor-General for the welcome extended to the squadron.