AUSTRALIAN. VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1921, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

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! A COAL FIELD. ; SYDNEY, May 21. Mr Cann, Minister for Mines announces the discovery of a workable coal seam on the southern railway line, about sixty miles from Sydney. The coal has been identified as number one Bulli seam and contains eight per cent, ash. CORRECTED FIGURES. SYDNEY, May 21. Alderman Hagan has corrected his figures regarding the City Council cold storage finance, stating the £43,000 was profit, not loss. i THE PILLAGES. SYDNEY, May 21. Giving evidence before the pillaging commission, G. Hudson, acting collector of customs, estimated losses at Sydney during the past four years is sixteen thousand sterling annually. i » i DIVISION OF AUSTRALIA, j SYDNEY, May 21. Dr Earl Page addressing Riverina delegates at Albury advocated a division of Australia into provincial councils. The existing boundaries were made in Downing Street which was not ' conversant with tho local geographical 1 conditions. VISED PASSPORTS. SYDNEY, May 21. Tho Union Steamship Coy has advised it is no longer necessary for passengers landing at Honolulu to have passports vised, provided the journey is continued on the same steamer. PROMINENT AIRMAN DROWNED, j SYDNEY, May 21 Colonel Oswald Watt, of the firm of Gilchrist and Watt, and chairman of the Australian Aero Cluh, with a distinguished flying record at the war, was drowned while bathing. A LOYAL GATHERING. (Received This Day at 8 a.in.) SYDNEY, May 23. An outcome of the recent anti-loyal outbreak was another loyal demonstration organised by the Empire League, all the churches participating, which drew great crowds to the Domain. NO SATURDAY WORK. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 23. A mass meeting of the building trades unions decided that no Saturday work be done in future. JNEMPLOYETX SYDNEY, May 23 The Director of the Labour Exchange reports there were 7,300 unemployed in the Metropolitan area at the end of April, as against 8,000 in March. AVIATION MISHAP. MELBOURNE, May 23. An aviation mishap resulted in Hubert Ross, principal of Shaw Ross Engineering Aviation Company, and Cyril Harris, sustaining fatal injuries. Ross was piloting two passengers on a pleasure lliglit in an Avro aeroplane, which nosedived, the propeller becoihing entangled in electric light wires, whilst the machine was being righted.