NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 15 May 1906, Page 5

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Paris leather market has been burnt. The damage is estimated at £400,000. The cable repairing steamer, Recorder, will reach Sydney to-night from Singapore.

A slight shock of earthquake was experienced last night twenty miles from Goulburn (134 miles south-west of Sydney). The officers and crew of the Japanese Squadron have been the recipients of considerable hospitality at Melbourne.

Mr Norton, manager of the Government Produce Export Department at Adelaide, left on the Ist May for New Zealand, to study the methods adopted at freezing works and produce export depots. The Miowera, which left Sydney yesterday for Vancouver, took £360,000 worth of specie. Rain is falling throughout New South Wales and over the greater part of Victoria, removing fears of a bad grain season. Britain, in a note to China, demands a satisfactory assurance that the recent appointments will affect the administration of Customs, on which fifteen hundred Europeans, under Sir Robert Hart, InspectorGeneral of Imperial Chinese Customs, aro engaged. A semi official statement published in Berlin admits that the German troops trespassed upon British territory in South Africa the other day when in pursuit of the chief Morenga. It" is stated that Morenga was followed because he was not disarmed, and might have returned at another point to German territory. The statement explains that Germany has assured Sir Edward Grey, British Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the trespass is disapproved, ancl tbe commander has been again instructed to refrain from such practice.