AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10060, 30 January 1909, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By Electric Telegiiaph.—(.'opyuumit.] (Pee Press Association.) Received .Tnnuary 29. :it 5.40 p.m. Sydney. Jaiuuiry 29 The Political Labor Conference vesolve<l in favor of the introduction of effective anti-sweating legislation, provision for compulsory a-d-equate compensation to I waige-earnens for injury <susl;iinc(l while following their occupation, compulsory apprenticeship.. abolition •oj premiums, equal pay to women for equal work, the enactment of a Kighr to Work Bill, inbor agencies to bo State i-ondueted, and the discouragement of immigration until suiUcieni iand is available For the eagvr anil desirable settlers at present in ihc Stato. Iveceived January 29, at 11.55 p.m. Sydney, January 29. The departure of the .Mokoia has hevit postponed till Monday. Victoria in (heir second inuing.s made 487 lilazlii-t 65). Barnes took live wickets for 147. New South \Va>les in iheir se/uju! innings h'si four wickets ior —Ndlhc (not out) 70 —and won by si>; wickets. [The aggregate immbw of runs scored wat? 1918 for 54 wickets, an easy record for first-class cricket, giving an average per wicket of a fraction under 56L 'this match gives the Shellield Shield to New South Wales. It Victoria hud been successful each of the three States would have won two matches. In the S2 matches which have been played between the two Stales New South Wales has wmi 4o and Victoria 09. It seems probable lhat_ yei another Barnes will iigurc in inu-niaiiona) cricket, the young New South Wahs plaver having secured 11 wickets lor 2Ub iti the ntal<h ju.it huished.j

" .Melbourne, .January 2\). W. (.I. Ashinan ; a leading biisiu. -•> mum; at Ihndigo. has been .-cnlenced i" ;-:n weeks' imprisonment for ii'leg;;! gold buvins_ r . Two others were sent ::iu ed to four months' for a similar ollenee.