AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ItJHTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TEST MATT I IKS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY. Nov. 28. The Board oi Control ~ppainled a subcommittee to report on the rei|ttest oi the (Queensland Association for a. test match to be played tit Brisbane next season but has not yet determined which State is to go without a test m the event of it being allotted to (Queensland.

RAILWAY COMPLETED. SYDNEY. Nov. 2S Alter ton years of construction work the North Coast railway, linking Sydney will, Tweed, will he opened on .Sunday. Trains will leave Sydney at 7.30 in the evening and will arrive at Muiwillumbah at 9.30 the following eveni up;. RAILWAY FR El 0I IT REDUCTIONS. SV DXFY. Nov. 2T Mr Ball has announced important reductions in railway freights on merchandise and live stock, ranging from Ms o*.l to 11 S .">(! per ton for a hundred miles to 35s 5d to H!> Hid for six hundred mile'. WIIAT.FR ARRIVES. (Received this day at 12 lo p.niA HOBART. November 2S. The steamer Sir .lames Clarke Ross, the parent ship of the Boss Sea winding expedition lias arrived. Ihe crew numbers 125. The ship 'tarries two thousand fathoms of live inch steel cable, and can anchor at any depth up ~i eight hundred fathoms, while On winding ve.-sels hunt in Die vicinity. If the sea is too rough for the blubber to he cut from the Whales alongside they can he hoisted aboard, and Die cutting done on deck. CATTLE DISEASE'. PERTH, November 27. A diagnosis of the cattle disease is still incomplete. Since the outbreak 250 animals have died or been destroyed, the deaths numbering about sixty. The quarantined area is practically denuded of cattle. All the States are adopting sttict precautions to prevent the introduction of cattle er any parts thereof, from Westialia. LEVY FOR STOCK-HOLDERS. (Received this day at 11.2 a a.m.) SYDNEY. Nov. -N The State ( ahinet is devising a measure to place a levy on siorMtoldois on lines similar to the (Queensland Act recently passed. INDPSTRI YL DISPUTE. SYDNEY. Nov. 28. The annual report of the Commonwealth Bureau of Statistics ■'">* la from 191 A to 1922 imlu-tnal dispuU numbered 2381. involving ore, <)()<) workers. The loss ol wages ■ < estimated at £, .(■•>(•• *. DEFINITION OF ATI AT EUR .

SYDNEY. Xov. 28. The Xew South Wales Tennis Association is seeking the dehnition m amateurism t rom the I ll ''" r . I Jj,'sociation of Australasia. ... linition does not coincide v.ith tin I,\.iteration's del lotion, it m stated that X.S.M . will v.ithdia.' from the hederation. KHT.I.Y COMMITTED FOR TRIAD. MKI-BOniNE. Nlov. 28 K,.Uy charged wilit cremating tlu l.odv of Mrs Overall without the authority of the Board. ol been committed fot 11 • ' <i[r _._