AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

I AUSTHAI.IAN tv, N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION STILL DRIFTING. (Recoivcd This Day at 8 a.m.) I ' SYDNEY, June 9. The agents of tlu> steamer Huvn state tlie vessel is well provisioned, having three months’ supplies aboard. A wireless message picked, up reports all are well. The vessel is drifting southeast at a rate of three miles an hour. The tug, Heroic, has been equipped with wireless, and has been despatched to join in the search. THE DRIFTING STEAMER, (Received tin’s day at 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY,, June 10.

A message received yesterday reported the steamer Havre was 29 miles oil' Lord Howe Island. Another message late last night stated it was becom. iug increasingly 'difficult to securo fuel to produce the wireless messages, which were then becoming very weak. The master was instructed to burn Hares at the mast-head, to assist the s torching steamers. ON THE WAV. (Received this at 8 a.m.) . SYDNEY,. June 9. The Now Zealand team arrived in the Manuka.

R ACER, BREAKS DOWN. BRISBANE, June 10.

The racehourse, Bunting, lias broken down, ami is.unlikely to race again.

BASIC WAGE CLAIM. ’ SYDNEY, June 9.

Bfffore the Basic Wage Commission, workers are claiming an annual basic wage of £625 (sic.) for a man, wife, and three children under fourteen years of ago..

ROMAN CATHOLIC DELEGATE ‘MELBOURNE, June 10.

A statement lias been issued in which. Dr Phelan explains that the Apostolic delegate is hastening from the northwest of Australia to meet the Prince at Sydney or Brisbane to speak in the name of Roman Catholics of the Commonwealth, LABOUR’S INTENTIONS. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) 1 SYDNEY, .Tune 10. At th© Labour Conference, Mr Estell Stated that Government intended to restore the rights, of tilt' 1917 strikers and the status' of the' de-registered unions.