AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7953, 31 January 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIA'S POSITION.

SPEECH BY THE VICTORIAN PREMIER. NEW ZEALAND BORROWS FROM VICTORIA. Received January 30, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, January 30; The State Premier (the Hon. T. Bent), in a speech delivered at the Exhibition lunahoon, referring to the position of Australia, in relation tu Canada and New Zealand, said: "We need not oare a button about Canada or New Zealand. They talk about New Zealand, yet when she wants money she comes to Victoria. She has come for half a million* but I managed to get ahead of sier.*'

THE BUSH FIRES. RELIUF FOR THE ■ SUFFERERS. ' ' * 1 . " -V I '' ' Received January 30, 4.5 p.m. MELBOURNE, January 30,, The Stock Exohange -has donated £IOO to the Bush Fires Relief Fund. A meeting held in the Town Hall was largely attended and liberal sub soriptions wens promised to ward b the ftind. ■; i THE WEATHER.

Received January 30, 9,55 a.m. SYDNEY„»January 30* Three inches of'rain, fell at Blayney in 4o minutes. ' BRISBANE, Jatuary 30. Splendid rain tiaa fallen over a great portion of the State. Eleven and a-half inclpes fell at Herbestbn. ,

GEMBROOK RAILWAY

ACOIDEN(F.

MELBOURNE, 'january 30.

Thirty-nine persona were injured in the railway accident near Gembrook.

THE FEDERAL CAPITAL

DIFFICULTY.

MELBOURNE, January 30

Speaking at the Exhibition luncheon the State Premier suggested that the Federal oapital difficulty would be settled by letting Melbourne and Sydney have ten years about until the Commonwealth was prepared to establish a oapital.

A STORMY VOYAGE, . -

SYDNEY, January 30.

The steamer Strath Nevis arrived ai; Newcastle after a tempestuous voyage from Hongkong. She drifted four days in the Coral Sea, owiDg to an accident to the cylinder.

CYCLING.

s A N.A. WHEEL RACE. '

MELBOURNE, January 30,

The Australian Natives' Association Wheel Race resulted as follows: —Cameron, 95y<3s, 1; Levey, 115 yds, 2; Whitson, 90yds, 3. Won by a length. v t ' * ANTHRAX. OUTBREAK AT YAXALA. Received January 31, 1.16 a.m. ADELAIDE, January 30. There is a serious outbreak of anthrax amongst the Adelaide Cooperative Company's herd'at Yatala. Thirteen cows are dead and numbers of others are ailing.

CABLE NEWS.

By Tilejraoh "Iritmte'it,