AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7981, 8 March 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TARIFF COMMISSION. . Reoeived Maroh 7, 9.56 a.m. ( HOB ART, March 7. Giving evidence befoie the Tariff Oommisison, an ironmongery importer stated that he was Compelled to purchase goods in Amerjjja in preference to England on account of the lower freights, though the quality of the goods was the same ,and the English prices appreciably lower. THE FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. Reoeived Maroh 7, 9.56 a.m. BRISBANE, March 7. Latest reports indoate that the floods are 'subsiding. The railway bridge at Cattle Creek has been washed away. Many stations are short of flour, the people living on rice and tinned meat. \ ABANDONED AT SEA. Reoeived March 7, 10.26 p.m. | ) SYDNEY, March?. The Underwriters' Association have been advised that the German barque Germania, bound from Auckland to New York, was abandoned in a sinking condition in mid-ocean. No details are to hand. RAILWAY INQUIRY. Reoeived March 7, 10.26 y.m. SYDNEY, March 7.' At the railway inquiry the evi : deuce of Commissioners.Kirkaldie and Fehon disclosed that unbarmonious relations existed' befoie Mr Eddy's death, and had continued, praotically, ever since, the implication being that Mr Oliver considered that he had separate and superior authority to the s two Junior Commissioners. On one occasion Mr Oliver charged Mr Kirkaldie, not then a Commissioner, with trying to mislead the Commissioners. Mr Kirkaldie warmly repudiated the suggestion, and Mr Eddy suggested that Mr Kirkaldie should apologise to Mr Oliver. Mr Kirkaldie olaimed that an apology was more due to him, and that if it were not forthcoming he would leave the room. Mr Eddy said that if he (Kirkaldie) left the room he would leave the Bervice. __—_— < NEW SOUTH WALES STOCK RETURNS. Reoeived March 8, 1 a.m. SYDNEY, March 7. The stook returns show that at tbe end of last year the State possessed 385,509,382 sheep, 1,984,450 cattle, 4,015,534 horses. 3 Compared with the nrevious. year sheep have increased by' 4,666,281, cattle 115,400, horses 15,618. , The chief inspector estimates that when the sheep returns are completed, it will be found that the number will be 40,000,000.

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