AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10043, 11 January 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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(Pkb Pbess Association.) Received January 11, at 10.2 a.m. Sydney, January 11. The Government Statistician's Tevised estimate of Uii wheak yield i 3. 15,731,000 bushels, an average of 12.6, with a jrrpbable exportable surplus of four million bushels.

Newcastle, January 11. The Miners' Federation, in response to a cable from the New Zealand Miners' Federation, adopted a resolution.pledging assistance to {He New Zealand miners and to at once co-operate with.the waterside workers with a view to cutting off supplies of coal to New Zealand. What steps the Federation proposes to take to carry the resolution into effect have not been disclosed.

The schooner Eugenie, from the Solomon Islands, Teached Chpe Hawke. Captain Gordon had died from malarial fever, and the mate (Anderson), the only other white man aboard, succumbed to fever and the effects of a very rough passage after arrival here. The crew of islanders were untouched by fever. The Rifle Association have received an invitation from the National Rifle Association of America for an Australian team to visit the United States in September. Baft was refused Tom Mann and the other arrested men. A young man named Williams was committed for trial on a. charge of murdering Johnston, whose body was found at Namoi on December 23rd. The evidence showed that Williams sold the horses and outfit with which the dead man had previously travelled. [The body of a man was found in the Namoi River at Weewaa with a brake block of a wagon attached to it. There was a ghastly wound in the head. The body was identified as that of a travelling" saddler named Johnston, who with a companion, a yonth of 18, passed through Weewaa with a two-horse wagonette at the end! of November. Subsequently Johnston's companion (Williams) returned alone and sold the turnout and then disappeared. In the meantime the police visited a camp seven miles from the river and found a quantity of Johnston's belongings. There were two beds, the lathes under the head of one being saturated with blood.] Another load of provisions was taken to the mine yesterday. There was no attempt at a block during Saturday's riot. The police captured the flag earned during the riot, and, though it was recaptured, the police again captured it. Several men on both 6'des were wounded, but none seriously. Melbourne, January 11. En route from Greymonth the steamer Ennerdale struck a sunken obstruction in Bass Strait on Wednesday night, and received damaje causing a "slight leak. The extent of the damage will not he known till the steamer is docked.