AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. X.K.W. .MIXERS. this dav at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY. July 24. The .Maitland miners rejected the coal agreement but the Co.ssnook and Kttrri miners both accepted it. THE COOGEE Mi RDER. SYDNEY, July 24. The police are still searching for the trunk with the body, or the carters who removed it from Coogee. The police stated that the trunk discovered throws no light oil the Coogee mystery. inflfenza in x.s.w. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, duly 21. lull IK •nz.n is raging at Gleninnes. Nurses are worked to a- standstill. Relict work is falling chiefly on probationers.

CO A L 3! IX EUS DEC IS I ON. SYDNEY. July 24. Four meetings at Maitland fields decided to accept the coal terms. The Ccssnoel; meeting exceeded three thousand and there were only thirty dissentients, t West Maitland an adverse vote was carried by 138 to 127. OLYMPIC TEAM FUND. MELBOURNE, July 21. The Commonwealth promised to donate £3,001) towards the expenses of the Australian Olympic team, if the Olympic Federation raises the remaining £IO,OOO necessary or pro rata if ten thousand is not raised. SUGAR CROP. BRISBANE. July 23. The sugar crop for 1923 is estimated to lie 240.000 unis, which, wiili New South Wales cane and Victorian beet, makes a total of 258.000 for Australia, Queensland's crop in 1923 was 258.001).