AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

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big fire. SYDNEY, March o. A fire gutted Brown and Poison’s ,large cornflour mills at Camperdown. The damage is serious. COST OF NEWSPAPER. LONDON, March 2. Commencing on the 6th., the price of the London “Times” will be lid pci copy to registered readers, hut two pence to others. SYDNEY, March 5. The Australian League Football Team have returned, and they had a great reception here. All were unanimous in declaring they had a royal time in Britain. They had no fault to find with the British football crowds, tliaugh some decisions of the referees were puzzling.

BURGLARY AT RAILWAY STATION DUNEDIN, March 6.

lvarly on Sunday morning the Milton Railway Station was burgled, a n d over twenty pounds were removed from the safe, on which dynamite was used. ‘Admission to the office had been gained bv breaking a window. The railway refreshment rooms on the platform were also entered and ten pounds in cash extracted. HOTEL ROBBED. 'Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 6. Burglars stunned, bound and gagged Killian, the night porter of the Grand Hotel and rifled the safe of about seven hundred sterling, including £550 lodged for safe keeping by Edith Drayson the actress. They then visited the White Hart hotel adjoin,ing hut were surprised and decamped without having made a haul.

COAL PRICES. < Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6.

A colliery "gent communicated with ]\fr Hughes urging the abolition of th e Coal Control Board. He stated the railway Commissioners saved twenty thousand by ignoring the injunction of the Board, when making a contract, and would have saved an additional thirtv thousand if all the collieries had been free to tender outside the board. The letter concluded—The extravagant prices paid for coal during the past three years was due to the Board’s operations.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION. SYDNEY, March 6

Mr McGregor, British Trade Com- , missionor, shows the productions of , Australia have decreased by twenty I per cent since 1913 Consumption de- J dined forty-three per cent. I JAVA TRADE. j SYDNEY, March 6. j Hr Hughes has issued a report deal- . ing with Australasian trade with Java, j wherein it stated that owing to goods • not being up to sample, and not in i accordance with the label, Australian ' goods were taoobed in Java. Scarce- j ]y any article will commend itself if l it hears an indication that it is produced in Australia. H.M.S. MELBOURNE. ' MELBOURNE, Mairch 6. Mr Forster has received a letter from j Lord Jellicoe expressing appreciation of The visit of H.M.S. Melbourne to New Zealand waters; also admiration ’ f or the crew in rescuing those on the I Helen B. Sterling. The hope was ex- ! pressed that H.M.S. Chatham would join tho Australian Navy for future exercises; also that the Melbourne would , repeat the visit.