AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 33, 22 January 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

COMMONWEALTH TRADE. x

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received, 22 8 a.m.) Melbourne, January 22.

The Commonwealth imports last year were valued at £66,860,303 an increase of £6,186,848 on the previous year. The exports totalled £79,484, 226, including £12,060,831 for specie and bullion a total increase of £4,993, 076. The butter exports were valued at £4,637,472 an increase of nearly £700,000; wheat £9,623,142 a decrease of £310,000; wool, £21,412,143, a decrease of £7,365,000. The net revenue from customs and excise was £13,561,119, an increase of £1,250,000. THE TATHRA WRECK. (Received 22, 8 am.) Sydney, January 22. The captain and a number of the wrecked Tathra’s crew have arrived. Their story adds little to the cabled details. There were seventy aboard. She was running back to port before a sudden storm. ' A big wave broke over and swamped the steamer.. She settled on the sand . The first and second boats got clear. Many still aboard were thrown into the sea. Some were picked up after being hours in the water. Twenty-four were drowned. SHIPOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION. Sydney, January 21. Mr Appleton has been re-elected chairman of the Australian Shipowners’ Association. LAND BEING RESUMED. Sydney, January 21. The Government is resuming 15.) acres at Alexandria for the extension of the railway goods yard. This will necessitate demolishing 280 hous- . f 68. THE SUEVIC. 2. —' Melbourne, January 2.1. The Suevic is at the wharf. All the water is pumped out and the damaged copra removed. , ,EIGHT SHOPS DESTROYED. 4j ■ ' ;7i , ■ (Received 22, 9.30 a.m.) - Adelaide,- January • 22.A fire at Renrnark destroyed eight v >small. xhqps. r - r - ■ J-. , ? V ) f # . * ! - J .i

REMARKABLE ESCAPES. (Received 22, 9.30 a.m.) . Adelaide, January 22. A train carrying one hundred and fifty passengers ran over a hull and was derailed. It ran down an embankment of sofe. earth wnich checked d^ityhii'bgtess: 4 '' Only dnfe carriage was f I! facifann mdf . i ■;, had ,;} y,e- , markable escape, ( none ■ beting.-.-iplu rjid. ENORMOUS GOLD YIELD. (Received 22, 9.30 a.m.) , Jt“. ■: v • Sydney, January 22. Less than a cwt of stone at the Long Tunnel mine, Gundagai, yoldej forty pounds weight of gold. ANOTHER DISASTROUS FIRE. i (Received 22, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 22. Another disastrous fire has occurred at Narva bri. Eleven shops in the main business block were destroyed. There were no fire appliances. The damage is not stated. BRITISH-GERMAN RELATIONS. (Received 22, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 22. At a banquet in connection with the National German Fete, Dr Kottomann said it was the impression of some people that the British and German nations were . not friendly. On the contrary, the feeling between the two peoples was most amicable. Many of the published statements were misunderstood. Some German leaders had decided views, but these views * were enormously exaggerated in the "papers by the time they reached Australia and frequently bore a false complexion.