AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

[AUBTHALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

GRAFT ENQUIRY. (Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Dec. 3.

Johnson giving evidence before the Graft Enquiry said Talbot assisted him financially in election campaigns. He acknowledged receiving five hundred pounds from Talbot for personal election expenses, but denied any compact or arrangements, as suggested, with regard to other members of the party.

ENGINEERS AND SEAMEN

SYDNEY, Dec. 3.

In connection with the shipping trouble, the marine engineers, (who consider some of the seamen’s demands unreasonable), decided that discipline amongst seamen must be maintained on vessels, CABLE ITEMS. (Receded this day at 12.25 n.m) SYDNEY, December 3. The great public schools,. following the lead of the ißugby Union, refuse to accept the amateur definition of the sporting conference. The Commodities Commission declined to reduce the price of butter on the grounds that dairymen were insufficiently recompensed for their labour and also the dairying industry was going backward. MELBOURNE, Dec. 3. Arrived—Huia fjrom Gifeymouth. MELBOURNE, December 3. At the hides sales, competition was general and picked stouts unaltered. Other grades declined a halfpenny. PERTH, December 3. The two candidates for Kalgoorlie are Foley (Miner Nationalist, and former Labourite, ’ and Mahon journalist).