PERTH GOVERNMENT_

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3387, 16 January 1920, Page 5

PERTH GOVERNMENT_

M PURCHASE OF TIMBER MILLS- . Received 11 a.m. PERTH, This Day. E The Government is purchaping the |South-west Timber Association Mills, |the price lbing £84,000-. 1 —._-.o‘-—-‘. ' RAINS IN QUEENSLAND. N SUGAR PROSPECTS GOOD. ‘ Received 11 a.m. BRISBANE, This Day_ I Splendid rains have fallen along the whole coastal sugar belt, and prospects for the new sea; on is bright. MR GR'AHAM’s RESIGNATION. I SYDNEY, Jan. 15. Mr Holman, in announcing Mr Grallame’s resignation, paid a high -fri: bute on behalf of himself and his colleagues to Mr Gr:-Illame’s integrit,_y land veracity in public questions. Mr Holman added: “Suspicious have been aroused against: him, but those who know best know that such suspicions are grotimiloss. Unfortuliately the suspicion cannot be alloyed. by legal proof, owingtoMl' Greorgesorfs illness, for many months——perhaps never. Under these circumstances it was better that fill‘ Grzilianne should resign.” 1 THE PRICE 01' TBA. SYDNEY, Jan. 15. The. wholesale price of tea. has advanced fwo pence per pound. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. P-ARl*]R’S ATTEMPT. '?ABIS., Jan. 14. Lieutenant Paror has arrived at Lebourget. AUSTRALIAN MARINE STRIKE. . ‘ ISHYDNEY, Jan. 15. The engineers of the Waifm-n-a,‘ which yeste-1-day arrived at N ewcastiei from Vancouver to-day gave noLiee.j They are on Am .t-ralian articles. Reports from Melbourne state thatl negotiatiins towards “a settlonient of ; the engineers’ s-trike has not been? broken off. The parties met again to-A day_ One unoflicial report states that there is a pdobability that the vessel} l will fbe manned on Monday. - s