AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8131, 4 May 1906, Page 5

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W. N. W[LLIS. EXTRADITION ORDERED. Received May b, 8.58 a.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, May 2. The extradition of W. N. Willis, who is alleged to be implicated in illeggal land transactions in New South Wales, has been ordered on all oharges. AN APPEAL BY WILLIS. Received May 4, 12.33 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. The Attorney-General has reoeived a cable stating tbat Willis has appealed to the Full Court against his extradition. The matter will probably be dealt with early in June. CRIME IN THE COLONIES. Reoeived May 3, 10.52 a.m. SYDNEY May 3. The New South Wales Comptrol-ler-General of Prisons states that his report with regard to the increased crime in New Zealand is oorreot the information being obtained from an offloial source. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. Reoeived May 3, 10.52 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. The Government Geologist has reopived a small diamond in a matrix found near Inverell. It is embedded in a piece of igneous rook, known as dolerite. The disoovery throws some additional light on the question of the origin of diamonds. It Is fair to assume tbat the diamond Was formed while the dolerite was in a cooling or solidifying state, . Until the present discovery the dolerite was quite unknown in the world as a matrix for a diamcnd.

(The origin of diamonds, which consist of pure crystallised carbon, is still a myutery, on which the attempts—only partially successful—to produce them artificially have thrown but little light. Very extraordinary conditions of beat, pressure, and absence of oxygen must have been necessary for their formation, and as they have been repeatedly found enclosed in aerolites the theory has gained some ground that they have been in all oases extra terrestrial in their origin, a notion which formed the baste of a recent popular romance). THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. Received May 3, 11.9 p.m. MELBOURNE, May 3. The Federal Parliament will open in June. COMMERCE CONFERENCE. MEAT TRADE! DELEGATES WITHDRAW. Received May 4, 12.31 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. The whole of the meat trade delegaets have withdrawn from the Commerce Conference. Ihe representative of the New South Wales Freezing Company explained that it was impodsible for Government grading to be undertaken without serious interference and damage to the meat exporting trade. THE GENERAL ELECTION. Received May 4, 12.31 a.m. SYDNEY, May 3. The Hon. A. Deakin, Federal Prime Minister, is desirous of having the general election in October.

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