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YACHT OIMARA SAILS. (Australian Press Association.) Melbourne, January to. About three thousand people assembled on St. Kilda pier to see the yacht Oimara leave on the voyage to New Zealand. The yacht was heavily laden with stores ami provisions. The trip is expected to occupy a fortnight.
FLOATING ‘‘SC HOOL.” LAUNCH AS GAMBLING DEN. (Received this day at 10 30 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 19. In a sensational raid the police arrested thirty-six men and a twenty ton launch elaborately fitted for gambling with a bar and buffet for convenience of patrons. The floating “School” is the first of its kind in Australia. For many months launches of about sixty feet long have been cruising round the Harbour. A police boat with ten constables intercepted the launch and later thirty-six men were charged with various offences.
APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE. MR LANG’S LETTER. SYDNEY, January 10. The “Herald” publishes a letter which Premier Lang sent to the Loan Council on November 27, appealing for assistance. “My particular anxiety at the present time,’’ he wrote, “is to find means of obtaining the necessary cash to carry on during the months of December and January.”
The “Herald” also publishes Mr Lang’s reply to the question in Parliament in which the Premier denied he had made application to the Loan Council for assistance but added:— “Officials may be going on with negotiations about which I know nothing.’
AUSTRALIAN SHEEPSKINS. MELBOURNE, January 10. Australian representative of a number of British fell-mongers received advice from them that they decided to join French fellmongers and not purchase Australian sheepskins while the export duty remains in force.
LOAN COUNCIL
NO FINALITY REACHED
(Received tb'* onv nt 10.30 a. 111.1 HOBART. January 19.
Regret that finality had not been reached at the recent meeting of the Federal Loan Council, in dealing with the serious financial position of the Commonwealth, was expressed by members on their return to Hobart. Premier McPhoe said if the States n\*l Commonwealth kept the Melbourne Agreement to balance the bucl,rHs. Australia by this time would have turned the corner and a large si in of new money would have been available for Australia in London.
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