VARIOUS CABLED NEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED NEMS

J. AUSTRALIAN

3N. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGH WOOL EXPORT. MELBOURNE, February 26. ci] A proclamation prohibiting the e: in- port of wool has been revoked, afti d’ s seven years’ ' operatibn. nd M. 1 OBITUARY, ral ls . MELBOURNE, Feb. 26. td- Obituary—Henry Teesdale Smith, j]_ well-known contractor on a large scab () f principally for public works. ' ,S , ■ AN ARREST. 1 BRISBANE, February 26. Coley in a statement to the police detailed the circumstances of the tra gody at North Sydney on 24th. Decern 2 <i her. His arrest was cabled on the 19th AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING ! settlement. I A SIGNIFICANT PROVISO. u _ SYDNEY, February 27. The shipping dispute is settled. The U settlement reached provides that m question of manning the ships is tc be raised in regard to such ships n< !11 ; . the owners do not put into commission immediately. n The manning question is to be decided bv a Manning Committee, equally re- * presenting the ship owners and the .seamen. This committee is to he (-onstituted by March Ist. at the latest. I. . LS derisions are to l>e binding on both parties. II 1 A conference, oil suggested alterna- * tions of the present general agreement it * , . n as to wages and conditions will be held o within a fortnight. The agreement is J, to continue in force until December 31st., or until mutually determined. The recommissioning of ships will proceed as quickly as is found possible. Arrangements are being made for the despatch of the Malteno to Auckland on Monday afternoon. Tt is estimated that over £1.200,I 000 Tins been lost in wages in conse- ( quenee of the shipping strike. I ’ FAR EAST TRADE. 4 (Received This Day at, 9.45 a.m.) ’ MELBOURNE, Feb. 26. I The Federal Government, is appointI ing a trade Commissioner for the East with headquarters at Shanghai. SUGAR OUTLOOK. MELBOURNE, February 26. ’Pile Sugar Controller states that Cuban purchases represent twenty-five thousand while one hundred thousand tons have l»een obtained in various parts of the world. Importation will now cease as the heavy Australian crop in view is sufficient all the Commonwealth’s requirements and provide a carry over to next year. AGAINST WHITE AUSTRALIA. A HULL MAN’S VIEW. (■Received This Day at 12.20 p in.) SYDNEY, Eel ([ni ary 28. Summon, the Hull 1 shipowner, expressed himself very candidly over the way things are run in Australia. He declared ail the white men he saw on the wharf could he gentlemen, if the country were run rightly. Instead of that, they wen* doing niggers work and doing ii darned badly. Australia was a black mail’s <ountry and could bo developed tremendously with black labour but if things went on as they were, the continent, would pass to somebody else, ns sure as the sun rises. SHIPOWNER’S GLOOMY VIEW. , (Received This Day at 10.35 a m I SYDNEY, Feb. 28. 1 Sir Henry Summon, a leading Hull shipowner, who is on route to New Zealand in search of trout fishing, takes a gloomy view of the shipping outlook. He declared the depression just coming to the shipping world was confronted j with the greatest slump therein the i world had ever seen. In consequence ( of the enormous shipbuilding pro- ] gramme in England and America, al- \ ready there were six or seven million | tons laid up in England and American ports. Already England had pulled up her losses and had now rather more 'tonnage than ’in 1914, while America had eight or nine million tons more ( than before the war. Already cancelled ; building orders were enormous. Summon said the days ahead hold very serious possibilities and that it. will take many years to work off the surplus tonnage and get hack to a position of balance. AN UNDESIRABLE. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feh. 28. The Makura will probably sail on Thursday for Vancouver. Esmonde will lie'll passenger. He states he will not he allowed to land in Canada unless Ik* pays for an armed guard. He will probably he sent back to Australia. The Commonwealth Government hilled him for an armed guard, but he has not paid. EMBARGO ON N.Z. PLANTS. •> AN AUSTRALIAN PROHIBITION. MELBOURNE. Feb. 25. The Customs Department has framed regulations prohibiting the importation into the Commonwealth of all plants and parts of plants, including fruit, from New Zealand, excepting agricultural seeds and grass seeds.