AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

| Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] FREIGHT COT. SYDNEY, July 13. Following on tbe receipt ol cables from London, nil the Continental and • British steamship lines announce freight reductions similar to those of tho Commonwealth Line. 1 i COOMA A TOTAL LOSS. ' MELBOURNE, July 13. 1 Tho owners of tbe steamer Cooma I have notified the underwriters tnat ' they Live abandoned tbe vessel, t ■ i COAL MINES ENQUIRY. ’ SYDNEY. July 11. t A Royal Commission lias 'been ap- ' pointed to enquire into the safe work- i ing of coal mines. It recommends that 1 naked lights should bo used in a! mines under certain conditions; that 1 regulations should he framed to re- 1 cluce to the- minimum, dangers arising 1 from shot firing; that the minimum * amount of fresh air in the mines should c bo increased and that no furnace veil- (1 tilation should he installed except in f small mines; that the present law should ho amended to establish a Court of Coal Mines Regulations in lieu of arbitration regarding safe, working and that a District Court Judge should be n appointed when this Court is establish- 11 ed. 1

CRIMEAN VETE RA N DJ ES. SYDNEY, July 11. A Crimean veteran AY. A. Murray, died in his hundredth year. He participated in the storming of .Sebastopol and subsequently served in the Indian Mutiny and the China War. WATERS IDERS’ DEMAND. BRISBANE, July 18. The wntersiders at Bowen have decided to refuse work except under tho rotary system. It is feared there will bo another hold-tip similar to last year, i when farmers were" compelled to come "-in from outlying districts to enforce the shipment of produce.