AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1919, Page 1

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| AUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] RACING STAKES. SYDNEY, This Day. . The Jockey Club has increased the pi-foe money for its autumn meeting by £3,400. INFLUENZA IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE, This Day. A suspicious case of influenza has been reported' at Unleye, the patient recently returned from Victoria. THE ERA OF DEMOCRACY. SYDNEY, Jan. 25. The half-yearly report of the Secretary of the Sydney Labour Council, after outlining the rapid growth and movement of the new unionism towards its goal of eniancipaion, grows prophetic, and declares that the transformation of society is about to take place, and the forces of evolution are moving majestically onward, grinding to powder the petty scheme of plunderers and politicans. The toiler is taking possession of the earth. He adds: All the economic forces on the planet have decreed that the working class sliaTl be the only class in human society henceforth, and that the useless element shall be transformed from parasites into producers.

SUPPLIES HARDENING. SYDNEY, Jan. 25. In view of the possible stoppage of Victorian 'Supplies of produce, the market was very active and prices are hardening, FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS. MELBOURNE, January 26. At the State and Federal Ministers Conference and the sub-committee on repatriation presented a recommendation that upon all advances bv the Commonwealth to the States in connection n-ith repatriation, the rate of interest should he one per cent less than the cost to the Commonwealth and that the maximum individual advance to any sol dier should be £635.