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(Australian Press Association.) COAL CONTRACTS INQUIRY. SYDNEY, Aug. 13. The Civic Coal Contracts Inquiry was resumed. Evidence was called in support of the allegation by Byrnes, Ltd that regular monthly payments were made to officers of the City Council for six or eight years, from 1914. The hearing was adjourned. ALBERT DIVORCE SUIT. SYDNEY, August 13. Arthur Herbert Albert, one of the prominent witnesses in the recent graft cases,- did not defend his wife’s suit for divorce, which was granted to-day, on the ground of misconduct with Martha Gordon, another graft case witness, and Albert’s secretary. LIFE IMPRISONMENT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ADELAIDE, August 14. The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction against Johann Thiele for the murder of his wife, substituting one of manslaughter. Thiele was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labou r.
ATTACKED WITH RAZOR. BRISBANE, August 13
Edith Eileen Ramsay, single, 34, was sentenced to four years’ hard labour for wounding Mrs Mac Donnell. The prosecution stated that Ramsay was enamoured of the- victim’s husband. and when he was away working, she attacked Mrs Mac Donnell with a razor and hammer.
TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.
SYDNEY, August 14
Mr William Brooks, M.L.C., (President of the Employers Federation here) announces the first move to abolish compulsory arbitration and substitute conciliation, will take place in October when a conference of the Employers’ Federation will be held. Air Brooks expressed the opinion that tile time had arrived for a settlement of industrial troubles round the table. This view is shared hv most Labour leaders.
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