AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 15 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY WOOL SALES SUSPENDED SYDNEY, Nov 14. The wool brokers have decided to suspend sales after to-morrow, owing to the lack of freight. THE COAL STRIKE. MASS MEETINGS HELD. SYDNEY, Nov 14. Mass meetings at Newcastle and Maitland blamed the Labour Government for the present crisis, in not having granted the men’s demands. They appointed deputations to urge the Government, in order to avert a grave.national disaster, to pass an act embodying the bank to bank principle. The Mocraki lias sufficient coal and sails on Thursday. FEDERAL CAUCUS MEETING. RESULTS IN DEFINITE SPLIT. MELBOURNE, Nov 14. The Federal Caucus meeting resulted in a definite split. Mr Hughes and the conscription party of eleven senators and twelve representatives, seeing the majority were determined to eject them, left the meeting and assembled in a separate room, Mr Hughes expected to go ahead at?ter negotiations with the Opposition. Mi McDonald, the speaker, has been elected acting-leader of the Council, which passed war precautions regulations, empowering the Federal Government to summon an urgent conference of those concerned in the coal stiike.