AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3483, 11 May 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Received 10.15 am.

SYDNEY, -"this day.

Broken Hill miners,,.who have been on strike for nearly twelve months, have decided -to request the State Government to nationalise the mines. The Government is applying to the Commodities Commission to red_uce the price of meat and clothes. BRISBANE, this day.

A public. meeting at Samarai passed a resolution urg‘ing the removal of Judge Murray and the appointment of Mr Stanford Smith as Lieut.-Governor. MELBOURNE, this day.

The Government is considering Marconi’vs wireless scTlenle for linking up Australasia. with the rest of the Empire and requests for estafflishment of stations at Norfdlk and Lord I-lifwe Islands. The question to be decided is whether the Governmeift can aiford t.o do ‘the Work itself or allow it to be done by private enf:'el‘prise. b PERTH,‘fhis day.

'l‘}:»e biemlial elections for the Legislative Council have been marked by the apathy of the voters. No political issue of ~outsitanr3ing importance was misaed. The figures are ineomple'fe, but the majority of sitting members have been re-elected.

THE MCLINTOCK CASE.

SYDNEY, May 10.

McLintock, who was charged with big ’defalcatiolls while acting as trustee in the estate of the late John Norton, was sentenced fo three years’ imprisonment. HEADING FOR BANKRUPTCY. SYDNEY, May 10. Evidence given’ before {he Commodities’ Commission on behalf of the Retail Grocers’ Association, declared that owing to fixed prices end being in the hands of wholesalers, rcfailei's were compelled either to break the law or sell at a. loss. Ti‘ was"only a ‘matter of time before retailers would be driven into bankruptcy. . ;-- —-u'zu—u-u ‘ " ‘FANNY DTJRAGK ILL.‘ _

.' _ S YDNEY, May yo. ‘ _Fai;liy Dlll'acl€, one of athe ehfétsen Olympic swimmers, has been’ bpérated éqn fox-:appendic’ltis. V V A SOULLING. ‘' CHAMPIONSHIP OF N.S.W. ‘ SYDNEY, May 10. The 'scul‘lel- wnevitt, affex‘ defeating‘ Syd. Kemp, chzlfienged Charlie Towns to row for the championship of Now South Wales. Towns declined on the ground of ago. and handed the championship to M’Devitt, who has now arranged to row Ripley, of Newonzeflo. on the Paninmaff-u. for‘ the uh:lm.pinrl:<}lip. ‘