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A MYSTERY CALL. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 29. Distress calls from the steamer Sumatra off Java, are still a mystery in Sydney. The Navigation Department has received no further news. CHINESE CONSUL PROTESTS. SYDNEY, July 29. F. T. Sung, Consul-General for China, sent a letter to the Prime Minister protesting strongly against the refusal of the civil administrator at Darwin to allow Chinese residents to fly their national flag. Sung states when the flag was hoisted at (half-mast in commemoration of the heroes who died in the cause of the national revolution, the Administrator interfered and ordered the flag to be hauled down. FEDERAL TRADE. CANBERRA, July 29. Oversea trading of the Commonwealth in merchandise for the half year ended 30Mi June last, resulted ip an adverse balance of £8,318,334 sterling. Imports were valued at £56,142,979 and exports at £47,824,645 sterling. The figures showed nominally there was favourable trade balance for the half year of £8.572,842, but during the six months (bullion and specie valued at £17,065.938 sterling was sent aibroad while £174,762 sterling’s worth was imported.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1930, Page 5
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