AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. COMMERCIAL. (Received this tiny til U .25 ti.m.) .MELBOURNE, Dee. LL tints. 3s 5,1 to 3s (id ] barley. English 3s hd to 3s lit;,d: putiitoes 13) lu Ll 3 1 I s ; onions Cf to C 3 5-. BINDER BEST OUTBREAK. BERTH, Dee. 11. .Two fresh eases ol Rinderpest are reported I'runi Erciiumtle. A hoard of experts has been appointed to take steps to deal with the disease. Other States have been requested to take precautionary measures to protect An t ralin’s exnort cattle trade. MINE TROUBLES. .SYDNEY, Dee. 11. As' the result of minor disputes, —'three additional collieries have been made idle, the trouble at one mine being an objection by the men tel using (o ride on the upper deck ot a double deck cage, though they have been accustomed to do it lor the pa-t nine mouths.

COMMUNISTS' LOAN. SYDNEY, Dec. II

,1. M. Baddelcy, addressing the Labour Council un the reconstruction ol .Russia said whether Communists or not they must admire the effort to establish international ideals in Russia. The local committee was endeavouring to raise a two hundred thousand loan in Australia by means of bonds at live per cent, repayable in 1U33, tor the assistance of the Soviet. N.S.W. I.IQEOM BILL. SYDNEY. December 1- 1. ’!be Assembly sat all night on the committee stage ol the Liquor Bill. The Committee rejected the clause requiring registration of l.armaids, and agreed to eompemsati.in for employees within eighteen month:.' service or over. Mr Hummol'd indignauilv criticised members who oledged l hcmsclves to an immediate referen linn, anti voted for logs. The Bill M.*s the most a-Louml-iug 'Christmas present ever given to the people. The defeat oi prohibition was not so much a set ha de to the issue as the blow to the honour of public men, breaking pledges. Only tiiirl.vone of lifty-live who gave the pledge liotiouu'd .t. They gave many and varied excuses, but these sounded like those by (Germany alien the scrap ol pa pot was torn up.