AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] ANOTHER STRIKE, SYDNEY, March 20. Canberra building trade strike has again broken out on the same accommodation house urgently needed for guests at the opening ceremony has been stopped. The strike is due to some of the contractors refusing to agree to the terms of the previous settlement. M AITLAND COAL STOPPAGE. SYDNEY, March 27. The Maitland coalfields’ trouble remains unsettled. There was <i meeting of the miners’ delegates at Newcastle on Saturday, which decided to urge the Government to bring pressure to hear so as to ensure a resumption. A conference of the Minister of Alines and the men’s represenntives is being held on Monday, after which, it is understood, the Goveinment "ill make a determined'effort to secure the restarting of the mines. Besides ten thousand miners, many others are idled anil trade and shipping is largelv at a standstill. SYDNEY, March 2G. It is stated that Air Tom AA’alsii intends to appeal against the recent verdict for £25 awarded him in his claim for substantial damages agaiiist the Commonweldth Government, Air liruce and the Superintendent of the Commonwealth police, oil the ground of the inadequacy of this verdict. ELECTIONS.
ADELAIDE. Alareh 28
The gcnei'.il election in South Australia resulted in a keen contest. The latest available figures given are: Liberal Country Party 24 seats. Labour 22. The main question «*it issue between the parties was the financial position, particularly the loss of over half a million on railways. Counting on local option polls they are not liir enough advanced to give any indication of the result. GENERAL ELECTION. PERTH. March 28.
The progress of the figures in the general elections indicate that the fate of the Government is in the balance. Present indications are United Party get sixteen seats. Country Party seven of the remaining twenty-seven seats. The United Party is confident oi winning four in the north-west lout ing Labour twenty-three.
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