AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 December 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN MARKET. CURRENT PRODUCE QUOTATIONS Received 9.30, MELBOURNE, this day. Markets quotations are:—Barley, Chevalier malting, 4/6 to 4/9; Cape barley, 3/2 to 3/3. Oats: Algerian milling, 2/55 to 2/6; feed oats, 2/4. Potatoes, £2 10s to £5 6s Onions, £9, N.S.W. ARBITRATION COURT. DEALING WITH THE STRIKES.

SYDNEY, Dec 19

The Arbitration Court refused to re-register a number of railway and tramway unions which were de-regis-tered as a result of the late strike. At the same time the Court granted the registraion to a number of new unions formed to take the place of the old. Registrations were granted upon certain terms, among them rules provis* ing against strikes;' against affiliation or co-operation with political bodies or bodies outside the railway and tramway service, against any political activity as a union; and against changes in rules without the approi val of the industrial register. The judge announced that he took the opportunity of notifying the industrial world that the court had de cided that something must be done to recognise the great importance to the State of industrial union as compared with trades unions. FAMOUS HORSE DEAD. WALLACE DESTROYED. MELBOURNE, Dec 20. The racehorse Wallace has been destroyed. He was twenty-five years old and had become very feeble lately.