Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 March 1914, Page 3

Australian Cables.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 (lleceived This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LOCAL OPTION VOTE. Sydney, This Day. At the annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association ! the report stated that the Local Option vote totalled 673,402, being 64.8 per cent, of the total voters on the rolls. The votes for continuance numbered 382,22-3 (an increase of 57,362) and for no-license 246,435, an increase of 239,912. THE SETTLEMENT. The strike settlement signed by the Premier, the employers and the employees provides that work be resumed forthwith on the rates of pay existing on the Ist of February. The variation of the existing award to be referred to an expedited sitting of the Wages Boaj;d in April. The question now before-the Boai-d as to whether the working hours be fortynine or fifty has been settled forthwith on the basis of-forty-nine and a half. Thei •e is to be no victimisation on either side and the union pledges itself to refer all fu(ure disputes to an industrial tribunal, without any cessation, of work. Failure to absorb all male labour immediately is not to be regarded as a breach of faiih oh the part of the employers. The settlement applies to all the allied trades. Melbourne, This ])av.

An amoment berweon flic master butchers, and the men lias l>oon signed and opei-ates from the 9th April next. FRENCH NIGHTS. The lion. J. Cook, in reply io a question, said it would certainly he satisfactory to Australia if she could undertake to purchase the French rights in the New Hehridcs. A CENTENARIAN. Adelaide, This Day. Doctor ilinton lias celebrated his hundred and first birthday. He has been unable to walk for two years owing to a fractured thigh, but his mental faculties are still keen. He has lived in six reigns.