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FIFTEEN YEARS. FOR PRISON BREAKERS. (Australian Press Association.) ADELAIDE, October 31. William Hayes, 31, Joseph Dawson, 26, who escaped from Yatala goal some months ago, when two other convicts were killed during a fight with the police, were sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for having attempted to shoot the police in order to avoid apprehension. AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGE. (Received this dav at 9.40 a.tn.) SYDNEY, Nov, 1. From to-day tho transfer of money from Sydney to New Zealand will cost £4 7s 6d per £IOO sterling ) so now to place £IOO in New Zealand requires payment of £lO4 7s 6d in Sydney. This is an addition of £2 10s to the previous rate. For ordinary trade transactions the cost remains unaltered at 5s per cent. The alteration liras been made with the object of preventing Australians transferring money to Now Zealand for the purpose of. buying London exchange in New Zealand, to the disadvantage of New Zealand also to check the sending: of funds from Australia to New Zealand for investment. MR LANG’S POLICY. SYDNEY, November 1. Mr Lang informed the Government that he was prepared to form an Administration. The new Labour Ministry will be sworn in Tuesday. Members of the Cabinet will be chosen by die caucus, and Mr Lang will allot Are portfolios. Believing Air Lang intends to swamp the Legislative Council immediately the Women’s Control Organisation Committee of the Labour Party nominated about sixty women for appointment. These include Lang’s mother-in-law.
TRAM FARES
SYDNEY, November 1
An endeavour to put the trams on a sounder footing, the Transport Trust is reducing fares during slack periods of the days, ten a.m. to four p.m. Two flections are now threepence as against fourpenee, and each succeeding section a penny less than formerly. T/he trust also intend imposing heavy license fees on motor bus services eliminating some entirely from to-day.
BOXING. SYDNEY, Nov. i
Bluey Jones 9.85, retained the lightweight championship at Leicliardt Stadium scoring a points victory over Jimmy Kelso 9.R. at the end of the end of the fifteenth round. The title lapsed through the former holder, Norman Gillespie’s failure to del end it within six months. Gillespie is at present in New Zealand.
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