NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8612, 20 November 1906, Page 5

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A plague rat has been found at Darling Harbour, Sydney. Information with regard to the wheat districts of New South Wales points to the yield being above the average. The Anglican Church Congress has opened at Melbourne. Besides all parts of Australia, representatives include the Primate of NewZealand and the Bishop of New Guinea. Archbishop Clarke delivered an interesting address on the limits of tolerance. .

Obituary : Mr Wybert Reeve, actor. William Oxley, Governor of St. Alban's. gaol, has been sentenced to three years' penal servitude on charges of embezzling £250 of gaol money. A fire in Paris melted the spire of the Rouen belfry. The famous clock escaped injury. The passenger steamer Dix sank, after collision, in Puget Sound. Forty-one persons were drowned and thirty-nine were saved.

Raisuli, the rebel in Morocco, has warned the Kadi of Tangier not to legalise any land purchases without his authority. An explosion occurred at Kiel, on board the first submarine which Germany acquired. Several of the crew were injured.

Saverio Lagna, a notorious anarchist, fatally stabbed Professor Rossi, of Naples University. A personal grievance was the cause of the act. The murderer escaped.

A Japanese battleship, with two cruisers, will pay a visit of courtesy to San Francisco in spring. Mr W. T. Jerome, District Attorney for New York County, reports that no State laws render it possible to institute criminal prosecutions against officials of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for practices complained of. The j übilee of tha Victorian Parliament will be celebrated tomorrow.

A Perth (Westralia) message states that an Italian, named Antoni Sala, was executed at Fremantle for the murder of his compatriot, Gregorini, at Mount Jackson on September 13th. Death was instantaneous.

Amid great excitement, Clarence Weber defeated Buttan Singh for the wrestling championship of Australia The Hindoo secured the first fall, Weber the second, then the Hindoo, who was greatly weakened, refused to go on. The War Office advertises to let the empty Saint Helens fort, one of the four circular forts guarding the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.

The latest London quotation for silver is 2s 9d per oz.