RECENT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2

RECENT NEWS.

A SUMMARY. Tha following ia a summary d news whick did not appear in Saturday's "Star ": — Mr Cirru'uhm, rha now Premier of tfca 2s T ew South Wales State, has boca given till Tuesday to to nil a Ministry. A tremendous fire has ibr&ken out at Hoboken, tiiireo rail-es south-west erf Antwerp, and is likely to continue for Aaya. Leakage from 'iha B-nsaia-n Petroleum Company's tanks caused ail explosion, and set fir© 'to 40,000 tons of oil, including the American Standard Company's stock. .Six workmen periaaed. The aumago is estimated at a, quarter «f a million sterling. **" A conference of landlord* and tenants at Dublin to discuss the land question, Lord Dunraven presiding, dissolved till* organisation, formed, in. January last, -and .foxmeci a. mew organisation., styled the Irish (Reform Association, -which is to inemde Irishmen of all professions, and moderates on. both sides. Another conference, held at Dublin, Mr i'ieid, member for St Patrick's Division* of Dublin, presiding, formed a Town Tenants' Association, with, the object of obtaining security of tenure, and preventing -what are considered exorbitant rente. ••• The Queensland general election resulted in •an. overwhelming victory 'for the ilorga-n-Labour coalition, which practically swept tho polls. A good many returns uro incomplete, but only in. one or two cases oan tihey affect the results. As figures stand alt present the Labour Party has increased ito strength from. twen-ty-i-hree to thirty-five, while Illie iloxganit63 have increased from thirteen to twenty-on-e, hotih cases representing «■ corresponding loss xo the Opposition, ■which seaired only fifteen, scats. A feaaure of the election was ■the defeat of Sir A. 'Eutledge, leader of the Opposition, and Messrs T. B. Oribb, J. F. G. Fearon a2id D. H. Dalrymple, »]1 of -vrlicm held portfolios in the P'hiliD Government. ••" The crew of the "West Australian, -wrecked in New Caledonia, have arrived at Sydney. The captain states that the vessel encoun l-ered rough, wt'a'.her after leaving Wellington. During ihegrnlo the water-tanks were washed overboard. The vessel 1 put into ■Xoumea to replenish, and when' leaving struck Campbell's Reef. Efforts to float 'ihe ship were unavailing, aixl it v.-as decided to abandon her, end the crew s-tort fcr Art, Island. The captain's boat arrived safely, and tha first mate's boat, coiit:i:nii"fr. fivp men, arrived after nightfall. Thfy wpre ofraid to land, fearing they would he. ma.s~arrf»fl. a-nrl driHeil <nKout for eight clkt = . «uffer:v:g groat ha.rdship3, owing {o f-hortnos-.- of food and wnter. Eventually they were ;>k:k?cl up by tho steamer Saint Antoine, which previously tech 'tho captain's party off Hip island.