AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13779, 18 June 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyiiehu THE PAINTERS' TROUBLE. (Received June 13. 12.50 a.m.) Sydney, June 17. The Arbitration Court lias decided thai it, cannot deal with the painton*' trouble, because the men went on strike. KUBELIK'S TOUR. (Keceired June 13, 1 a.m.) Sydney, June 17. Jan Kubelik, the celebrated violinist, accompanied by his wife and party, left Sydney by the Mokoia for Auckland, today. .MIXING ACCIDENT. M'i-xbot:rxk, June 17. By the premature explosion of a blast in the Long Tunnel mine, at Walhaila, Gipp*land, five men. were grievously injured. One had his hands Almost torn off. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Lavnoksto.v, June 17. A shocking tragedy was discovered yesterday. . A boy eight years of age beat his brother, three years and.a-half old, about the head till be died. Ho then hid the body in a hole by the roadside. STATES AND FEDERATION. Sydney, June 17. Mr. Wade, Premier of New South Wales, in a speech, referring to the Federal Government's interference with State revenues, declared that'unless the States insisted on their rights under the Constitution it, would only be a question of time when the Constitution weuld be turned upside down. THE NEWCASTLE EXPLOSION. Sydney, June 17. Boppi, one of those injured i& the powder explosion at Newcastle, has succumbed to his injuries.