AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 324, 15 January 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SHIPPING DISASTERS. , f (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I [by electric telegraph—COPYßlGHT! Received January 14,12 p.m.) | Sydney, January 14. The Manuaku has been surveyed. >• The vessel is practically undamaged V| and will sail as usual. The damage to her cargo is not disclosed although A it is understood it is not serious! Arrived s.s. Rangahga. She made a favourable passage from New Guinea, at the rate of about eight knots. At the time her shaft broke, the weather was good and continued so during the three weeks drift before v the shaft was temporarily repaired, j The captain and a third of the crew suffered from malaria fever. The captain is awaiting instructions from the owner. 4 ? DEATHS PROM ANTHRAX. (Received January 15,10.1 a.m.) Sydney, January 15. ; Two men who died from anthrax, A at Cootamundra, contracted the di- V sease in skinning cattle. Twenty-eight cattle succumbed from anthrax. '• . FLOODS. Sydney, January 15. A flood at Cooma caused considerable damage to the crops and stock. A man named Butler was drowned •. while crossing a creek. !

POULTRY EXPORT. Melbouene, January 15. London and South African firms have placed orders for 500,000 ducklings, chickens and turkeys. The reason assigned for Victoria capturing the orders is owing to the strict system of State grading. •BUILDING STRIKE ENDED. Adelaide, January 15. , The strike in building trades has, ended and work has been resumed under a mutual agreement between employers and employes.