AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3592, 2 October 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FINE FOR THE RACES. Received T. 0.10 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. The weather is fine for the races to-day. NEW MINERS' AWARD. SYDNEY, This Day. Justice Hibble has issued a further award for mining employees not included previously, increasing the rates by three shillings daily for all adults. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. Received 10.10 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. The State Loan of i three millions will bear interest at. five and a-half per cent payable in t ,four instalmenits, the first of which is due on Ist December. FEDERAL POSTAGE RATES. Received KF.IO a.m. MELBOURNE, This Day. The new postal and telegraphic rates have been gazetted, and' "will operate from to-day. WOOL SALES. ADELAIDE, This Day., The first wool sale since 1914 was practically lifeless. Although 'a record was established—one lot *bf greasy wool selling at 393 pence per pound, the highest price paid ait: auction in Australia —twenty thousand bales were offered and only a little more than a quarter were sold. SHIPPING. Received 10.10 a.m. NEWCASTLE, This Day. Sailed. —Karamea, for Auckland. BRISBANE, This Day. Sailed.—Kiki Maru, for New Zealand. PERTH, This Day. Sailed.—Carnegie, American survey ship, for New Zealand.