AUSTRALIAN.
[PER PREBS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] STEAMER ASHORE. .'Received This Dav at 10 15. a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. The steamer Makaobo is ashore at Lord Howe Island.
VICTORIAN SURPLUS
fßecoived This T)av jit jO 'J). a •- 1 • > MELBOURNE, This Day. The State Treasurer has announced the. Budget will show a surplus of £253, 125 at the end of the financial year.
LABOUR CONFERENCE. „ (■Received This Dav at ULIS. a.m ) PERTH) This Day. The Inter-State Labour Conference has opened. The press are excluded.
WHEAT STEAMER SUNK. SYDNEY, June 8. News is to hand that the well-known Howard Smith cargo steamer Era has been torpedoed and sunk. The Era was requisitioned to take a
cargo of wheat Home from the Commonwealth some weeks ago, and all the members of the crew joined the vessel in Australia. No particulars have, been received by the company, but it woulu appear that the vessel and her cargo have been totally lost. The Era was specially designed for tb Australian coast trade, and was employed between Sydney, Newcastle, at-Inter-State ports.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1918, Page 3
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