AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 320, 5 January 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

INTERSTATE CRICKET MATCH.

[by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT.]

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) (Received January 4, 10.35 p.m.) Sydney, January 4

In the match, New South Wales v. South Australia, the visitors in their first innings; made 157. The highest scorers were Dolling 38, Jenning 42, Hill 23. Noble took four wickets for 35 runs, Garnsey two for 43, Comer 3 for 50. New South Wales have lost one wicket for 133 runs. ' DEMENTED WOMAN’S DREADFUL DEED. Sydney, January 4. A tragedy has occurred at Cabramatta. A woman named Mrs Deane was seized with sudden madness and attacked her three young children with an axe, whom she severely, but not dangerously injured. After her arrest, she attempted to throw herself under a train. She declared the children were better off dead, and she would rather be hung. The woman has been sent to an asylum. THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. (Received January 5, 7.46 a.m.) Erisbane, January 5. , Ex-Senator Higgs in a letter to the newspaper “ Worker,” gives amongst his' reasons for • the defeat of the Socialist Party in Queensland, the more , lavish expenditure ■ of money than at any previous elections. It came from rich' shareholders in rings and trusts, which were threatened by a Labor platform and 'from men whom it pays to contribute thousands of pounds to keep out of Parliament representatives of the masses. IMMIGRANTS FOP. N.S.W. (Received January 5, 9.46 a.m.) Sydney, January 5.

English farm labourers are arriving in fairly large numbers, as the result of the Government assisted immigration scheme. THE WOMEN’S VOTE. Sydney, January 5. Senator St. Ledger, in an interview, claimed that the splendid women’s vote won the Anti-Socialist victory in Queensland. VICTORIAN AGENT-GENERAL. Melbourne, January 5. Mr Taverner has been re-appointed Agent-General for three years, at a salary of £IOOO per annum. DESTRUCTIVE EIRE. BRISBANE, January 5. A fire in Main-street, Ronia, destroyed five shops and damaged five others. No estimate of the damage is to hand.