AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13845, 3 September 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyrigll; BRITISH FOOTBALLERS. (Received September 3, 3 a.m.) Brisbane, September 2. The British footballers defeated a metropolitan team to-day by 'ib point* to ;. RAIN IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adklaide, September 2. j Splendid raine, which were much needed, , have fallen over the southern part of th' State. — A , TERRIBLE ( AWAKEN I IN C. Stunk*, September 'A. A woman Gomn&mhuiiiit, while walking along tin.' railway line at Narrsbri, v, « knocked down by a train, her leg beiup almost severed. TIMBER STACKERS' STRIKE. : , i > Sydney, September 2. Several timber vessels are blocked, their . loading being delayed owing to a strike of stackers upon the question of rat*-* of pay. The stevedore?, have struck in sympathy with the stack.... WEST AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY, .-'i Kaxcoorue, September <? \ A man named Walter Douglas and a girl named Ella Wayth, with whom he was' ,; living, were found dead together in their lodgings yesterday. A revolver, . Lv-o chambers of which had been discharged, was "found alongside the bodies. It if suspected that the case is one of murder followed by suicide. " COSTLY CARELESSNESS. / Sydney, * September 2 Owing to the carelessness of an em- ' ployee in leaving a tap running oil the ■iluor above, £5000 worth of stock was damaged in the warehouse of Groves and C 0.,. York-street. : ... iCIRCUS TENT BLOWN DOWN ' Sydney, September ? ■ During the progress of a performance of Wirths 1 Circus at Orange yesterday' a gale i blew down the tent! A -'scene'ofwild tils order followed, during which eight pereow were injured. MR. DEAKIN ON DEFENCE. Mklbotjrnb, September 2. Mr. Deakin, speaking at the dinner tendered by the Melbourne Yacht Club to the visiting American officers, said * that Aus- : tralia had for the first time seen a" fleet of battleships, and would do well to 6tuey the policy of the men behind tho gun?. ' Australia could not be content to accept defence ultimately at any other hands thnr her own.