AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8996, 5 December 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY'S BIRTH-RATE. HIGHEST FOR [TEN YEARS. Received December 4, 9.35 a.m. SYDNEY,'December 4. The birth-rate of the metropolitan area for November was the highest for ten years. INTER-TRIBAL FIGHT. ONE BLACK KILLED, TWO INJURED. Received December 4, 10 a.m. PERTH, December 4. Au inter-tribal fight took place at Leonora, in the Malcolm district, and the centre of a number of important mines. One black was killed and two seriously injured. "REDUCTION." TWENTY-FOUR HOTELS TO BE CLOSED. Received December 4, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 4. The Licenses Reduction Board ha 3 ordered twenty-four hotels to be closed in the metropolitan area. VICTORIA'S WHEAT YIELD. AN ESTIMATE. Received December 4, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, Decern b-rr 4. The Government Statist estimates the wheat yield at 12,840,000 bushels. About eight million bushels will be absorbed locally. THE FEDERAL TARIFF. GOVERNMENT THRICE DEFEATED. Received December 4, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, December 4. The House carried heavy reductions in the duties on glassware, the Government being thrice defeated. EXPLOSIONS. PRIVATE KILLED ON THE FLAGSHIP. deceived December 5, 12.39 a.m. SYDNEY, December 4. An explosion of methylated spirits in t*e pantry of the "flagship Powerful caused the death of Private Culley, a marine. SIX MEN INJURED. Received December 5, 12.39 a.m. SYDNEY, December 4. Six men in the stokehold of the coasting steamer Kempsey, lying at the wharf, caused an explosion of benzine with a naked light. The six men were injured, two seriously.