AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3442, 23 March 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Received 10.5.0 a.m.

SYDNEY, This Day

There will be no alteration in the election figures until the postal and absent and second preference votes are counted. Calculations on the final results] are more Or less speculative. It is: expected it will be at least a. fortnight before the final figures are known. There are still about twelve hundred absent and postal votes outstanding in Mr Hvolma.n’s electorate. The .Tennis Association has decided to decline an invitation from South Africa to send an Austaralzussiafirteam there, but will consider the sending of one next year. A motion that hegotiations be commenced with New Zealand with a view of changing the venue of the forthcoming Davis Clip match to Melbourne lapsed, as t‘l!‘e mover was absent.

The Industrial Court refused the application of the Pastrycook’s Union for the abolition‘ of Sunday and night baking. ‘

Arrived: Port Chalmexésx, from New Zealand.

Arrived: Westralia} from New Zealand.

General Birdwood and Monash have been made honorary doctors of laws.

The Federal Government has decided to charge jewellers and other users of gold a premium of 20/ per ounce. It is unofficially stated the sugar price is being increased to sixpence per pound,