Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 January 1914, Page 3

Australian Cables.

ELECTRIC TBLEGRAI'H —COPY.It.TGHT. JVEU I'IIESS ASSOCIATION.? (Received This Day, 10.30 a", in.) ( TIMBER- YARD DESTROYED. Sydney, This Day. A fire destroyed Burns and Company's timber yards at Pyrmoiit, doing heavy damage. ' AN AUSTRALIAN AVIATOR, Freniantle, This Day. The aviator, Mr Hawker, is a passenger by the Maloja. He is on a three months' visit and brings an aeroplane. He intends to give exhibitions, and will probably attempt a flight from Melbourne to Sydney. He is also prepared to "loop the loop" if sufficient inducement is offered. I He states that the feat is an easy one, possessing no great element of danger. J He returns to England to com- I pete in the Gordon-Bennett lest and for the Daily Mail prize. FUTILE. J Hobart, This Day. Another conference in the printing dispute has proved futile. THE NEW ;:LOG." ( Melbourne, This Day. A conference between the Steamship Owners' Association and the Waterside VVorkors' Federation has been opened to consider the claims under the Federation's new "10g , ," including , a demand of two shillings an hour for waterside workers. ■ It Avas adjourned until Thursday to enable the employers to discuss the claims. HOTELS CLOSED. During seven j'ears tlu> Licenses Reduction Board closed 710 hotels, whereof SO per cent wore situated in the metropolitan and suburban centres. The amount of compensation paid was £-344,952 and was met by the remaining- hotels. ' A SOCIALIST'S WILL. Thomas Cadley, a, declared Socialist, who owned four cottages, has just died. In Ins will he carried out tho Socialist ideas, leaving three cottages to their occupier, who also receive a share of the proceeds from the sale of the cottage where Cadly lived. The balance of the estate is to be distributed in legacies amongst friends. One of the tenants is n jeweller, and Cadly ovory week chopped him :i supply of wood so that the jeweller would not spoil his hands for tine work. »■————»