AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ARSOCIATIPN. ONE BIG UNION'S APPLICATION*. MELBOURNE. February 8. The Trades’ Hall Council passed ,-.t motion : “That the Council did net oppose the, application for the One B.bg Union for- registration in the Continornweallli Arbitration Court, provided Written undertaking was given by tli e Piovisioiml Council of the One Bi , ? Union that it did not organ iso a gains': ! 1 xist.ing unions.’’ product-: prices. .MELBOURNE. February S. Oats :5s ltd. As 7d: Burley (mnlfiin ! English) I>. Id: Cape (mailing) .‘V- 1 •Id.'’is 3d: feed 3s. 3s Id. Potatoes £0... £0 13s; unions £7. £7 10s. AUSTRALIAN TEA M , j ADELAIDE. February 8. The Davis Cup selector- met to pick the team. After the meeting 11 "as announced that it was impossible tomato any formal statement as the fi'.st intimation of what had been done must lie given to the Coum-il of the AusD'it--li.-ie Association meeting at Sydney on. Friday night. KFDWATKR Ol TUB FAR. (Received tin's day at ’1t).43 a.tn.) SYDNEY. Feb. S. The outbreak of redwnter in llici Tweed district is spreading. The stoc!: officials are convinced that a numbeiof cases have occurred which have not been reported. (TTY CHAMBERS DESTROYED

SYDNEY. Feb. 8. A lire destroyed the top floor of Bauson's Chambers in the city, which are occupied by a iiumb-r of firm-. The damage is twenty thousand. DAMAGE BY FLOODS. SYDNEY, l-'cli. S. Tie- heavy storm at Moloog, a hen five to six inches of rain fell, caused many thousands of pounds damage to the railways bv washaways, and also to buildings in the town. Following all inspection U the Commonweal li Line cargo steamer. Jlooral. bv the Navigation Department before her departure for the Continent. Havessel was detained as one of four lifeboats was ttnseaworthy, am! the other three unstable.

LLOYD GEORGE INCIDENT FOR ETON OFFICE DECISION. [ REUTERS TkM-’.OT:AMS.] (Received this dnv at 12.25 n.m.) LONDON, l-’eb. 7. The Foreign Office, on Hie 22m1. of January, during the period ol iransilinn between the old and new Governments and when there was netiiallx no political head, the Foreign Office derided, as a matter of r-oiiriesv. to send the documents to Mr Lloyd George, asking whether lie ohjeeted to their publication, and indicating that it might not he to the di>:mvauta:-e ol Britain if tlicv were published. Mr Mac Donald learned of ilie alleged j Lloyd George interview half an hour . after lie received the report from Paris, at which lie was ple.is- ii been use if showed how well things had guesince the Labour Government (nine into office. On inquiry -Mr MacDonald learned that the French Ambassador called at, the Foreign Ollh-e on ,qth. -lanuary and the l-ori.ign Ollicc earel'nlly considered hitherto --iet documents v hit-li tv ere tin- only copies possessed hy the Foreign 1 Th' U is impossible to say what they -‘-uta'o]t j, understood the m- ’-•• ft j a gi-at blow to M. r -tu r- • " !! i, whom the Labour t "rr.r-v •' * * been getting on very noil. anl '‘'-th I whom important arr.nisorr.erTt were , made with r.-gaiM to ihe 7bdaiim.tr. Ohviotislv M. Poincare might suppose that action had been taken behind his hack. Lord Crewe had been instructed to call on M. Poincare hi the morning to explain the whole situation.