GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 May 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COAL SHORTAGE. WAGES AND PRICE INCREASED. SYDNEY, May 5. From to-day the price of Northern Districts coal is increased 2/9 ton, Southern Districts 2/6 per ton, Western 2/3 per ton, while the wages of miners, other than contract workers, are increased 15 per cent, and the adult wage for off-hand employees is raised 2/7 per day. >

CONTRACTS ONLY SUSPENDED,

MELBOURNE, May 5.

It is officially explained that the existing coal contracts are not cancelled under the new regulations. They are merely suspended in order' not to hamper the Government's administrative work.

HUGE OCEAN CARRIERS. MEAT SHIPS IN BUILDING. Received May 6, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, May 1. Six large meat carriers are being built on the Tyn e for the Federal, Shaw Saville, and Commonwealth Dominion lines. Hawthorne and Leslie have nearly completed the Port Nicholson, for the Dominion line, which is 500 feet long, and 12,722 tons dead weight. Swan, Hunter are building two for the Federal, and the Palmer Co. is building a third; two have been launched. Armstrong. Whitworths, and Palmer are building one each for Shaw Savill. The- last fiv e are 450 feet long and carry 3200 tons of meat each.

IN THE AIR,

CIVILIAN FLYING INAUGURATED.

LONDON, May 3.

A Bristol biplan e inaugurated Bristol to London civilian flying service on Thursday, carrying passengers. THE BAVARIAN CRISIS. BERLIN, May 5. Levien, Nissen, Axelrod and Toller resigned after violent quarrels at Munich, They have been succeeded by a committee of twenty. PRICE OF MEAT. LONDON, May 5. The British Controllor has reduced retail prices of imported meat by 2d per pound.

NOT RECOGNISED. LONDON, May 4. In the House of Commons, Mr. Harsworth said the decision of the assembly at Podgorit/a to depose King Nicholas and unite Montenegro to Serbia was not recognised by Britain. THE IRISH QUESTION. LONDON, May 5. The Irish-American delegation have arrived at Dublin. They report that Mr. Lloyd George agreed to facilitate the journey of a Sinn Fein delegation to Paris.