AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N..Z. Cable Association.] SITEEP SALES. SYDNEY, July 6. At the sheep sales 170 rams sold realised £30,523 sterling,' , WORKERS’ NEEDS. SYDNEY, July 5. Addressing the first public sitting of the Industrial Commission to fix the basic wage. Air C'ounington, representing the majority of the Trade Unions, asked the Commission to treat human being* as human beings, and not as machines that could live on rice when they bad the feeling that they would like corned beef. The request was made as Ihc Commission will also determine the standard of living. STUD SHEEP SALE. SYDNEY, July 5. The annual stud sheep sales commenced to-day. Three of the Austin Waiiganella' Company’s pure special merino rams realised 1200 guineas each and three others from tiie same stud eleven hundred each. A TTaddon-Rig special stud merino rani fetched 1300 guineas. The bidding throughout was exceptionally keen.

KALOOORLTE INQUIRY. PERTH, July 0. At the Ka.lgoorlie inquest the Government Bacteriologist ffive evidence that he examined the remains found in tho shaft of tlio mine. The bones were all either burned or very old. Ha could not sav whether the remains contained shot. Doctor Afat,thews gave evidence that lie knev* AYhlsli and Pitman. Tho remains found were of men similar to them. Finger prints found on the bottle at the plant did not correspond with these of either Triffcne or Coulter. MELBOURNE, July 0. At the end of June there was 125,047 wireless licenses in Australia being 2.1 per oeiit. population, an increase for the year of nearly one hundred per cent. A T ictoria leads with sixty-three thousand licenses. N.S.AV. has thirtysix thousand.