AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

ApShiIALJAN A N. 12. PARI.U ASSOCIATION] U FARM WORKERS. SYDNEY, Nov. 4. In connection with the forthcoming harvest, the Australian workers union di are demanding a forty-four hour week li with a wage for general harvest hands c< of £5 per week, and keep. The wages h of other hands tp be proportionate. c b BOOKMAKERS HIT/ a SYDNEY, Nov. 4. s Bookmakers particularly in Sydney t were very heavily bit over Poitrel’s fi win. For a considerable time, the e horse had been backed, until the mark- i et was exhausted. 1 SUGAR COMPANY ACTION. ,t SYDNEY, Nov. 4. f At the Colonial Sugar Company's j t meeting, the Chairman declared if the j ] Proliteering Prevention Bill now before ’ Parliament, become law in its present i form, it would be necessary for the Company to wind up its relining works in New South Wales, as such a trade, i involving enormous purchases at Long dates could not possible continue if the selling prices were to be fixed by any official board. A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. MAN SHOT BY BURGLARS. MELBOURNE, Nov. 3. ■A sensational daylight tragedy is reported from 'St. Ivilda, David Davidson and Henry Frampton interrupted two men who were attempting to break into a. bouse. One of the men fired a revolver and killed Davidson. The other fired at Frampton, but missed. Hie men escaped on bicycles. COMMUNIST PARTY. SYDNEY, Nov. 4. The Communist party lias issued a manifesto detailing the lines on which it proposed to accomplish a social revolution. It urges the necessity of members to actively identify themselves with unions and also form groups in workshops and otherwise to capture legislative or other machinery, calculated to effect a change in the social position. ! SCHOONER SOLD. SYDNEY, Nov. 4. The schooner Maroro has been sold to Hall, of Gisborne, and proceeds to Newcastle to load coal for New Zealand. VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, Nov. 4. A meeting of Ministerialists and Conn try Party members discussed the question of uniting forces in order to secure ,i ’majority in the new States Parliament. Subsequently the Premier stated that Sir Alexander Peacock, leader of the Country Party, had been invited to join the Government, and the following personnel of the .Ministry was announced:—Premier and Minister of Agriculture, Mr 'Lawson; Education, Forests and Labour, Sir Alexander Peacock ; Treasurer, Mr McPherson ; Attor-ney-General, and Vice-President of Board of Land and Works, Mr Robinson; Commissioner of Public Works and Wheat Scheme ; Mr Oman; Chief Secretary, Major Baird; Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Mr Angus; Honorary Ministers, Messrs Pennington, McWhar and Hicks.