AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian S' N.Z. Cable Association.) CHAMPION RAAI. 'Received tin’s day at 8 n.m.) SYDNEY. Julv 8. The grand champion Corricdnle ram ol the Sheep Show, bred and exhibited h,v T. Rowling, of Glenleigh, .Stonehenge. was purchased l>.v 11. T. Little, New Zealand, who was judge of C'omodules at the Show. The price is not stated. The purchaser intends to e.xliihit the ram at the forthcoming Canterbury Show. CAIRNS S'IKIKE. BRISBANE, July 7. Strikers in Hmisfail district state they are dissatisfied with the activities of the police in connection willi the murder of the man Hynes, and that they have organised posses which arc scouring the district.

I he cane tanners are now arranging to charter ami work their own steamers. in order to remove the sugar crop. They staled that, if the strike enn-

I inues, they w ill not again he held up like they were during the last industrial upheaval.

811KEP SALKS. SYDNEY. Julv 8

-At the sheep sales of British breeds, on account of Delud'd Ross r Wanganui' ten Lincoln rams realised L'3l Ills. On account ot A. Allison (Soutlaml) 78 Leicester ram lambs brought '£'39l 5s (id.

T.VSAfAX'S CAPTAIN EXONERATED SYDNEY, Julv s.

The Court, of Alarine Inquiry held at Matavia in coimeetion with the stranding "I the steamer Tasman (rallied Ist May) exonerated the Al.aster. Captain ( aluseii, | rom all IJame.

CLERKS' I'NION CL UAL (Received this ilav at. 11.25 a.tn.) MELROFRNF. July 8. A new log prepared hv the Federated Clerks’ Fnion of Australia to he submitted to the Arbitration Court asks for equal payment for men and women ami a basic wage of C(i at twenty-one years of age, fixed daily hours nine to live; observance of all public holidays witli payment at (lie rate ot treble time for holidays ami Sundays, three weeks annual holiday en full pay and thirteen weeks' leave alter ten years service. The wages claimed other than the minimum, range up to l’|s weekly for accountant s and ehiel clerks.