AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3482, 10 May 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

I Received 10.10 a.m. E STITNEY, This Day. ' .—\rrived: At 6.15, Riverina. ! BRISBANE, This Day. } A rich iron ore discovery is reported {from Miva. Siding, Kingaray Line. lsamples tested went as ‘high as 73 per cent. E J. King, cyclist, has been selected

for the .team in the Olympia games. MELBOURNE, This Day. Fully fifty per cent of the striking building employees resumed on Sat urday. ‘”‘ ' The Wool Council is considering a proposal by Mr Hughes to dispose of half a million bales of low class wool at present in Australia to the Central Powers at three times ‘the appraised price, payment being one-third in gold and the rest in bonds repayable in three years. Advice has ?been received that the British Government has decided not to make any further purchases of imported cheese.

Speaking at the welcome. General Booth read a message from the King, congratulating the people of Australia and New Zeafand upon the splendid part they played in the war, hoping to hear of their continued struggle against sorrow, misery, and sin. The King states he is deeply convinced that in strengthening Christianity there is true hope for the maintenance of the spread of our civilisation. Vv T ithout Christianity our civilisation and all it embraces must fail.