AUSTRALIAN NEWS
PENNY A WORD MESSAGES
(Australian Press Association).
SYDNEY, April 10
The penny per word beam wireless to England is impracticable, according to a statement made by Air Fisk to a Select Committee that is inquiring into the proposal at Sydney. The present volume of traffic, lie said, did not warrant such a rate, unless a subsidy was granted.
HOUSEBREAKERS
WELLINGTON. April 10.
Two charges of having attempted to break and outer shops, with intent t osteal, were admitted by Robert Campbell, a miner, aged 21. and Edwin MeNab, 18, at the Magistrate's Court to-day They also admitted being found unlawfully in possession of house-break-ing implpmeiits. They were committed for sentence.
COAL CONFERENCE ADJOURNS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 11. The Coal .Conference adjourned until Tuesday.
RELIEF VOTED,
FOR TASMANIAN FLOOD
SUFFERER'S,
SYDNEY. April 10.
The Federal Government has given £SOOO for the relief of the Tamanian flood sufferers.
AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY
DEFIED
(Received this dav at, 9. a.m.) SYDNEY, April II
The State Labour caucus decided to defy the Australian Labour Party on the question of the levy ol one-half per cent on the salaries of Labour members of Parliament, imposed recently by the Australian Labour Party to aid tinfighting funds.
A RARE FIND. . SYDNEY WORKMEN’S DISCOVERY
SYDNEY, April 11
Workmen engaged in the Sydney underground railway excavations for the Town Hall station, under tin* portico found nine cedar coffins during the past week. One was filled with biioks, a second contained the remains of a dress suit and the others fine dust. Their presence is a mystery. Many thousands of people have passed over the spot in the last hall century.
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