AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1919, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

! I AUSTRALIAN A N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] FRISCO STRIKE ENDED. SYDNEY, June 28. The Union Coy. has received advice that the strike on the Pacific coast is over. The Afakura leaves Vancouver to-day WESTR.ALIAN CABINET. BERTH, June 28. Mr Frank Brown lias been appoint- 1 ed Colonial Secretary and Air Scaddou becomes Alinister of Alines, railways i and industries, with control of the po- j lice and State Shipping Departments. WHEAT PURCHASE. MELBOURNE, June 28. In the House of Representatives, Air Watt stated the amount involved in the purchase of wheat by Britain from Australia was £20,333,000 FOOD SHORTAGE. BRISBANE, June 28. The position in the northern towns in regard to shortage of food as a result 1 o!f the .seamen’s strike is becoming lesperate. The police at Townsville and Charters Towers are rationing the populace. Before the rationing, a riot oc-

curred at Townsville caused by the people’s efforts to secure supplies of bread. { DIRECTOR OF NORTHERN TERRITORY. BRISBANE, June 28. Air H. E. Carey, formerly Government Secretary in Darwin, has been appointed Director of tjic Northern Territory. M.C.C. TOUR ABANDONED'. SYDNEY, June 27. The Australian Board of Cricket Control has received a. cable statiug that the Marylebone Cricket Club is unable to send a team next season. SEA-MEN’S TROUBLE. SYDNEY, June 29. A Melbourne message states that there is a hopeful development in the shipping strike. The Seamen’s Federal Council have decided to interview Hon. Mr Watt (Acting Premier) on Monday to endeavour to reach a settlement. CURTAILING TELEGRAAIS. SYDNEY, This Day. Owing to the depletion of th c telegraphic staffs, press messages within the Commonwealth have been ordered to be reduced by one third. A curtailment- of telegraphic services is probable. influenza spreading. SYDNEY, This Day. The weather is bitterly cold, and influenza is increasingly rampant with numbers of deaths both in the city and ■country. Reports from other States continue highly favourable.