AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

iUHTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION. JAVANESE BUY STUD SHEEP. SYDNEY, Doe. 5. Buyers fur the Jiipnne.se Govornnwiit have purchased a number of highpriced stud Corricdale sheep, making the third consignment bought on the Government’s account/ EREIGHT REDUCTIONS. SYDNEY, Dec. 5. The Overseas Shipping Association announces that the reduction in freights for the United Kingdom and the Continent are averaging 10 per cent. In some cases the reduction exceeds 10 ik'v cent. broken him. mines resume. SYDNEY. Dec 5., Three Broken Hill mines, the North, South and British, are resuming operations, after a long extended idleness. Tliev will lind work for several hundred.. EEDER.au POLITICS. 'Received This Day at 1 .JO p.in.l MELBOURNE. Decemer G. In the House of Representatives a lively discussion took, place on the question whether the Senate possessed power to press requests for an amendment to the tariff schedule. 'I lie Minister of Customs urged the passage of the tariff, si mi to consider the amendment on its merits and effect a compromise! where necessary. Mr Walt mgued that the constitutional aspect should he determined forthwith y side stepping only weakened the position of the roprerciltatives. A motion was carried by 33 to HU tlml. in view. >f the urgency of tin*- tariff, the House refrain from a. determination of the i-Onstitutionaj aspect till a subsequent debate. The Senate’s amendment, was accepted and the remainder rejected. The Ministry .is inviting application for two tehilieal instructors at CtCU to £SOO sterling to teach trades to the natives of New Guinea, particularly the rudiments of motor engineering and carpentering: