AUSTRALIAN.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WOOL SALES. SYDNEY. November 13. At the wool sales skirtings were firm hilt merino fleece wools were in less demand, with easing tendency sold live to seven and a hell per cent below last week’s level. CABINET FRTCTION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 13. Friction has developed among members of the Cabinet over the selection of an aoting-Premier during Sir ,1. Fuller’s proposed visit to England. Interesting developments are anticipated. SEAMEN GAOLED IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY Nov, 13. Thirty-one members ol the ere" of the AAaikawn were sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of disobeying lawful commands of the master. The men all pleaded Guilty ”to the charge. The captain explained the men were on New Zealand articles. AA'heii ordered to duty they refused. Counsel* for the Union Steam Ship Company stated there was some question of a change of wages in New Zealand, hut that could only he settled over there. The crew had no. notice of a reduction in wages set out in the articles. The men had been misled. They saw what had been happening in New Zealand, and their action was an attempt to prevent any change that may lie legally decided on in New Zealand.
Warrants have been "issued tor thw arrest of 24 members of the Moeraki’s crew on a charge of refusing duty.
| Both the AVaikawa and Aloe rain are still lying in tho stream. The company is refunding the fares of I be Mn"raki’s passengers.
It is feared trouble is likely when the Afakurn arrives to-morrow. Attempts have been made to secure a crew to replace the present one. which is i n Australian articles.
ATTACKED BY BLACKS.
/Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) PERTH, Nov. 14
At Billiluna, in Hall’s Cteek district. Macks attacked a party of oil explorers, members of the Lock’s Oil Development Syndicate. They killed .J. .McLennan and wounded the leader of the party, Leo. .Tones, assistant Government geologist of New South Wales, and another member.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1922, Page 3
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