AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Australia '& N.Z. Cable Association.]

FINED FOR NOT VOTING. SYDNEY. April J 5. To date 1,749 persons have been lined for not voting at the November Federal elections. The chase of non-voters continues. AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. SYDNEY. April 15. Tim Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union, its a counter move to Mr 'loin Walsh’s application to the Arbitration Court for the re-registration ol the Union, at a special meeting empowered iis officials pro’tern to take steps to apply for Federal re-registra-tion under the 1920 rules.

NOTED PRESBYTERIAN'S DEATH. MELBOURNE. April 15. Doctor Laurence Rcnluid, Professor of the 'Theological Hall of Ormond College, Melbourne University, and formerly .Moderator ol the • Presbyterian Church of Australia, collapsed and died in the city to-day. He was SO years of age. CRICKETER’S DEATH SYDNEY, April 10. Obituary:—Frank A. Iredale, a former international cricketer and until recently secretary of the N.S.W. Cricket Assn., aged 73. AUSTRALIAN MINERS. SYDNEY. April 10. The Central Council of the Minors’ Federation received a deputation Ironi the Federated Engine-Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association and discusseu the coal situation. The Council decided to request the Mine Owners* Assn, of -N.S.W. and Victoria to meet the representatives of the Engine-Drivers’ Federation in conference. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. SYDNEY, April" 10. Turner has been committed for trial oil a charge of murder. PRODUCE PRICES. MELBOURNE. April 10, Wheat, quieter at 6s 4d, 0s 2d; oats, milling, 3s 10(1. feed 3s 3d; barely, English, 4s, 4s Gd, cape 3s (id, 4s; potatoes £ll to £l2 10s; onions £l9.