AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[IT TELEGRAPH —rEU press association.] CABLE DELAYS. • Received this day at S a.m.) SYDNEY’, Jan. ]O. Heavy delay continues on the cables <.n the overland lines. FEDERAL CABINET CHANGES. AIELBOURXE, Jan. 15. The following changes have been made in the federal AHnistry owing to Air Biiwden’s Designation. Sir Neville How.se becomes Afinister of Defence and Health, Senator Wilson, Alin, is ter- of .Marketing, and Immigration, and All' AI a rr, Honorary Alinistcr.

WOXTHAGGI AITXER.S STRIKE. AIELBOt RXK, January 10. About fifteen hundred men were idled by a dispute at AYonthaggi coal mine over wages. It is considered probable that the strike trill he extended. Air Brooinhall: “They introduce adventitious capital, which is useful to the actual importers, whom eventually their operations benefit.” He continued that though some .speculators made large fortunes, he was sure that on the balance, the wheat .speculators as a whole lost more than they made.

PETITION FOR SEQUESTRATION. (Received this day at 9.15 a.in.l SYDNEY, Jan. 17. The New South AYales Branch of the British .Medic a I Association has lodged a petition of bankruptcy for the compulsory sequestration of the estate of Dr. G. S. Thompson, with interest thereon, totalling C2GGS : also L'J22 for; costs iii connection with a further judgment obtained in England as the result of Thompson’s appeal against the first judgment. The petition is the outcome of a controversy between the Association and Thompson over the ease of Airs Farr (New Zealand). |