AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
iAustralia & N.Z. Cable Association.] INDUSTRIAL REFERENDUM BILL. MELBOURNE, June 10. Pie Federal House of Representatives, after an all night sitting, passed the Hill providing for a. second referendum relating to essential services. SALE OF STEAMER. SYDNEY, June 16. It is reported that the Union Company’s steamer Wainiarino, which has been lying idle in Rose Bay for some months, lias been sold to Eastern buyers. COAL RESUMPTION. SYDNEY. June 0.
An aggregate .meeting of the Engine Drivers and Firemen in the Maitland field, which is tlw most important field in the State, carried a resolution agreeing to resume work on Saturday, to prepare the mines for a full resumption by the miners on Monday. Thu Woollongong miners carried a similar resolution. There is now little doubt there will be a resumption in all mines on Monday. SYDNEY, June 10. The TJon Mr Baddsley (Minister of Alines! announced that all mines will resume work on Monday, and I.lml restriclions on tho use of ;;as are living lifted to-morrow. SYDNEY'S FOG. tfteneived this day at 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. June 17. The State Meteorologist says the fog cabled •yesterday was the densest recorded since the: weather bureau comniciioed keeping records in 1859. It. was between three and four hundred foot high and it usually was fifty. Audi her very dense log was experienced this morning. A WOMAN DROWNED. SYDNEY, June 17. The Coroner returned a verdict of dentil through drowning. in the case of a. woman whose body was found Hinting in the surf at Manly. 'I lie woman had previously been found wandering in the streets. She told the police her name was Annie Miller and sir- had come from New Zealand. She appeared to lie about sixtyfive years of age. A COLD SNAP. MELBOURNE, June 17.
Melbourne experienced one of the coldest days on record the minimum shade temperature, being 31.1, and grass temperature 22.0 Uncovered water was covered with a layer of ice and manv taps were* frozen. STATE SAWMILLS. PERTH. June 17. The Minister for Works, Air McCollum referring to the Stats sawmills, said between July 10U and 30th of June 1026, the turnover was six '. ilium sterling. Over two millions were paid in wages. The net profit was £185,000
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