AUSTRALIAN NEWS
ROTHBURY MINE.
N.S.W. CABINET INTENTIONS.
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 10 a.mA ■SYDNEY, Nov. 29. The Ministry has altered its plans regarding Rothbury Mine. If .the ■present negotiations between coal owners and miners fail, the State Ministry will proceed immediately with the manning of the colliery with free labour.
It is proposed to work through the Chi istnias season with tile exception of Christmas Day.
Many applications have been re ceveide from skilled men.
ROWDY SITTINGS.
TN STATE ASSEMBLY
(Received this day at LO a.m.)
SYDNEY, Nov. 29. Tlio sittings of the. State Assembly lately have neon very rowdy, but last night’s was the worst for many years, dhe refusal of Labour members to listen in silence to a second reading speech by the Premier on a Bill to suspend rural awards, led to the ejection of three members, and eleven others were warned.
Labour members throughout the speech continually interjected.
FEDERAL BANK BILL.
CANBERRA, Nov. 29. Treasurer Theodore, in the House, introduced a Bill to amend the Commonwealth Bank Act. The Bill empowers the Treasurer to authorise the Bank to require any person to furnish particulars of the gold coin and bullion held by him, and to require any person to exchange for Australian notes any gold coin or bullion held by him.
A LUCKY SAVE,
FROM DEATH FROM THIRST
PERTH, Nov. 29
Faced with the prospect of death from thirst in the north-west Charles Green who (became lost, located a telegraph line and cut the wires in the hope of attracting linesmen. A black tracker and a linesman went out and found Green in an exhausted condition, .i. -
COMMERCIAL,
MELBOURNE, Nov. 29
Wheat is 5s 2|d; flour ' £l2 15s, £l3; pollard £8 15s; bran £7 15s; oats 3s 7d, 3s 8d barley, none; maize 5s l€d.
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