AUSTRALIAN.
, (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.] PETITION TO PARLIAMENT. (Received This Dav at 10.15. * m ; SYDNEY, This Day. A petition, signed by 25,000, was prei sented to Parliament praying for the disfranchisement of all enemy subjects and descendants.
j STRIKE EFFECTS. SYDNEY, This Day. Owing to a. strike at, Port Piric four mines at Broken Hilt are closed, idling 5,000. BANK AMALGAMATION. (Received This Dav at 10 'n. h.Ji , MELBOURNE, This Day. The directorates of the National and the Colonial Bank of Australasia hav drafted a scheme for amalgamation of the two institutions, which will shortly be submitted for the approval of shareholders. Tho new institution will be called the National Bank of Australasia, and have a paid-up capital of £2,000,000, with a nominal capital of £5,000,000, hv a readjustment and reissue of shares to the present holders.
WOOL PAYMENT.
(■Received This Dav at 10.15. -on 1 MELBOURNE, This Day. Govcrnmen have made a further payment to wool growers amounting to £G,094,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1918, Page 3
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