AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

seaTUAI.IAN AND N.Z. CAIIi.I ASaoCUflOn cable < iiargks reduced. SYDNEY. May 2. No oili-ud information is fort In (lining regarding Hie cable reductions. The pi'.-.xiimpt ion i- that it will udl in line with the i’aeilic Cable Hoard. WOOL SI,LAIR. SYDNEY, May A meeting (,f the National Council ol V. 001-elling Brokers has been called at Melbourne lor \\ e.lnesda;’ to eon--1 sider the position tr,sited l.y the heavy [ fall in wool prices, and the ahsceme of .siihsl autial Inlying onlers. The-wool-sales ;u Adelaide that were lixed for Thur-ilny and El'iilav next have been postponed oiling lo the decline in priThe grower-,, who have <lis]lo.-ed of eighty-live per (cut. of their clip, believing tlial Hie delaying of sales will result in a stabilisation of prices. SYDNEY’S WAR MEMORIAL. (Received this day nt 9. IN a.m.) SYDNEY, May 2. The Executive Comuiitlec of the Sydney War .Memorial | ro| uses, subject to conlirinal ion l.y the Senate to accept a tender for a carillon of fortynine hells in a Iraiim.vork capable of carrying lifty-three under a guarantee f:oai He tendering linn that the tower ::rran ',-men! - are p.-r'.ei-t !y snitalile, end t'-at. arti“ti>- ,ir : e-s is assured The amount iiih.s-crit.ed i.. £]7.:!90. BARQUE'S KNi'Kltl KNUKS. SYDNEY. May I.

The barque. Hamburg, which left .Melbourne for tin* United Kingdom when I laden, on April )S(h. rot urn.-d lo Sydney ir.’iu a thrilling cxpericnc;-. AtTer having rounded N.and when ;'.oit miles ~lf the Bluil. he struck a violent gal" wl.il Ii snipped her ennThi - .- "It iiiua'i lor ■ "Veral days. Tin i--' ;\.-re mount a i lions .-"a.-, and then tin- rudder slock .-napped, and she became mil of control. The 1 nr,pic was knocked about hy tin- gale, ami il vva-imp-is.- iMe to make r- I", ir-■ Du Ihe third day the weather moderated, and the crew, who were mostly e'unjMi.se.l ol German apjirelit ices, sum ceded with mueh difii, ulty in rigging a jury steering gear. Taking advantage of a favourable intuit wind, th;' captain decided to make for Sydney. though New Zealand w.r- the u an--!, sailing with the jury rudder nearly a thousand miles. Eort imalely the cargo did not shill, otherwise the vessel would have been doomed.