AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1917, Page 1

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Per Press. Association.—Copyright' BIG IRE AT FIJI. GREAT LOSS OF COPRA SUVA, July 17. A' disastrous firo at Levuka started at 9.50. o’clock this morning. Ivrafft and Smith’s store and Morris and Hedstrom’s copra shed at the south end were burnt to the ground. The lire is still burning. It is estimated that the damage is about £30,000 in eluding about 1000 tons of copra. N.S.IV. PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, July 17. The opbUTed the second session of the new parliament Among the promised reforms are adequate provision for returned soldiers amendment to the industrial and .aruitration and Life Insurance Act*. Mr. Storey proposes to launch a censure motion against the Government for neglecting after the war problems, failure to protect the wheat stocks, unfair appointments to the Legislative Council, cancelling the Norton Griffiths contracts and failing to make adequate provision for shipbuilding. - COALMINERS’ STRIKE. SYDNEY, July 18. Six coal mines in Newcastle and three.on the South Coast, have been rendered idle hv strikes. V NEM PLOYED UNI ON ISTS. MELBOURNE; July 18. The Trades Hall Council states there are 580$* unemployed unioists in Melbourne.