VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1921, Page 1

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN.

BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS AB3N., COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY LABOUR ENTERPRISE. Sydney, August 11. The newspapers are calling attention to the issue by the Australian Labour Party of bonds towards the hind for assisting the City Labour Aldermen to secure a return at the next municipal elections. The bonds are valued, at £1 10s. and ss. respectively. TRe Council of Employees are expected to take some of them up, according to their rate of pay. A circular accompanying the bonds, emphasises the most of the concessions which the employees enjoy to-day were secured for them by the Labour Aidermen, and adds that if they are not returned again, these concessions will be withdrawn. Some two thousand of a total of five thousand, bad been already paid. It is understood a number of the •mployees are opposed to taking bonds, stating they regard them as a forced levy. SYDNEY TRADERS. SYDNEY, August 12. The Retailers’ Association here is leading a crusade for sweeping away all the Government-imposed war restriction s. They claim that the restrictions are crippling the markets, out of which the bottom has already dropped. They state that, as a result of interference half fho retail traders of Australia to-day are selling goods below cost price, QUEENSLAND POLITI OS. BRISBANE. August 12. In the Assembly the Country Party moved a vote of no-confidence in the Government. The debate was -djoumed till Tuesday. COST OF LIVING. SYDNEY, August 12. Giving evidence at the Board of Trade enquiry into the cost if living ■the representative of the Employers Federation stated that prices of drapery. Manchester goods imots nd groceries hml fallen h v 15 (/> 20 per cent dming the past year. DR MAN NIX’S WELCOME. 'Received This Day at 9.-10 a.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. Ui Considerable indignation is voiced in press correspondence over Dr Mannix’s welcome being allowed to lengthily block city tram and other traffic, and to llaunt the Sinn Fein llav. In view of previous happenings, the writers are inclined to regard the welcome in the light of coal trailing. ECHO OF LIOOFI’L ( ASK. SYDNEY, Aug. 1,1 Bishop Dwyer replying to a presentation of a cheque at Temora towards the cost of the Ligotiri case, said though the verdict entitled him to costs, those behind Ligouri would not pay them. That was another sample, of British fair play. The verdict was not so much the result of clever lawyers as n divine providence, acting in answer to tinprayei s <>i the people