AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

|TAustralian. & N.Z. Cable Association.] YEARLING SALES. SYDNEY, April 9. At the yearling sales Mr McCombe, New Zealand purchased the Haver-;stock-Amieitia colt for 120 guineas; AM Oeorgenson purchased a TrillionNnzctllia gelding for 220 guineas and A. AlacDoriakl purchased a Flying King-Lady Ceres colt for 32f> guineas. SYDNEY, April 9. At the yearling sales 185 lots were sold for 45,715 guineas, at an average I of 247 guineas. HIDES MARKET. MELBOURNE, April 9. The hides, market is generally maiu- ! Mined excepting kips which sold in , the buyers’ favour. CYCLONE VICTIM.. SYDNEY, April 9. Mrs Ayers, one. of the victims of the Tmigio cyclone, succumbed to her ■ injuries. AUSTRALIAN COAL TROUBLE. ENGINEDRI VEILS GIVE NOTICE. SYDNEY, April 9. The colliery onginodrivers and ftrei men held an aggregate meeting at Bulli when it was unanimously decided to give the colliery owners fourteen .days’ notice of tlicir intention to cease work from Monday next until theii claims wore granted. Ibis brings all -die coalfields into line and unless a settlement of the dispute is reached by •the time the fourteen days’ notice oxI plies the coal mines throughout Aus- ■ tiralia will he rendered idle. AUSTRALIAN FARM AVORKERS. SYDNEY, April 8. Consent having been given by cor ; sol for the Graziers’ Association and the Australian AA’oikers’ Union, the j. High Court has ruled that a dispute not confined to .any one State exists ir. the past-oral industry. The result of this decision is that the Federal Arbitration Court will.commence hearing to-morrow the claim of the Australian AVbrker.s’ Union, representing forty thousand workers, for a. new award in the pastoral, industry. Nearly three , thousand respondents have been cited. Evidence will he heard regarding the conditions in 1111 States except Wcsjrnlia.

I AVa'J’ERSIDERS’ RESUME, j ’ SYDNEY, April 8 ( . Members of the AVaiersido AAtarkers’ j Federation have commenced working f with the volunteers. This marks the j! end of the local strike for the water|j eiders concerned. N.S.\V. FINANCE. SYDNEY. April 8. At the annual conference of the Affiliated Chambers of Cotnmerco of ■ New South AVales. in the Presidential address, Air Dunlop said it was essential to industry and commerce that industry should lie freed from the heavy taxation that was absorbing much ot the money which should he available to private enterprise for reproductive development. He advised the Government to stop borrowing ’ when they would lx-, surprised how ■ well and how soon the State would come to a wonderful prosperity. Tho Railway Goods Manager, ad- ! dressing the. conference, said that it was going to ho. a. difficult year in which to make the railways show a profit. Not only had tho forty-four hours’ week meant a deplorable loss, but the failure of the wheat harvest, which at first was estimated at fiftysix million bushels, but now was calculated to amount only lo thirty million bushels, meant a huge additional loss in trucking.