COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 85, 7 November 1916, Page 2

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

THE COAL STRIKE. SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS. (Received 12.5 p.m.) Sydney, November 7. The Minister of Industry has departed for Melbourne to confer with the Federal Minister on the question of co-ordination in action on the coal strike, the question of Federal or State jcppjtrol having arisen. The Ministers have agreed to load-, ing coal hn the. transports. Shipping at Newcastle largely paralysed. All trading steamers are hung up. The crew of the steamer Atna, which should have departed for I'iji to-day, was paid off.

CUTTING DOWN THE SERVICES. Melbourne, November 6. Preparations are being made to cut all inter-State services down to the lowest limit so as to save coal. POSITION IN QUEENSLAND. 1 • 1 -Vf 1 (Received 12.0 p.m.) Brisbane, November 7. As the result of the coal strike three coastal steamers have already been paid of! and several others u ill ho idle unless an early settlement is reached. The tramway services' have been curtailed. : . ... f || >1 THE AUSTRALIAN “BRUMMY!” (Received 12.5 p.m.) Sydney, November 7. An inter-State conference decided to appoint a committee in each State in connection with a scheme for raising the general standard of the Australian horse with special regard to army remounts.