AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3619, 4 November 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

HARVESTERS' DEMANDS. Received 9.10 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. In connection with the forthcoming harvest, fa 9, Australian Workers' Union is demanding a forty-four-hour week, with wages for general harvest hands at £5 per week and keep, the wages of other hauds to be proportionate. BOOKMAKERS STRUCK. Received 9.10 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. Bookmakers, particularly in Sydney, were very heavily hit over Poitrel's win. For a considerable time the horse was consistently backed until the market was exhausted.

THE COMMUNIST PARTY. Received 10.55 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. The Communist Party has issued a manifesto detailing the lines on which if is proposed to accomplish a socials revolution. It urges the necessity for members to actively identify themselves with Unions and also to form groups in workshops, and otherwise to capture legislative or other mnctitnery, calculated to effect a change in the social system. SCHOONER SOLD. j Received 10.50 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. The schooner Mororo has been sold to Mr Hall, of Gisborne, and proceeds to Newcastle to load coal for New Zealand. VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, This day. A meeting of Ministerialists and Country Party members discussed the question of uniting forces in order to secure a majority in the new State Parliament Subsequently the Premier stated that Sir Alexander Peacock, leader of the Country Party had been invited to join the- Government, and j the following personnel of the Ministry was announced: Premier and I Minister of Agriculture, Mr Lawsonr Education, Forests and Labour, Ssr Alexander Peacock; Treasurer, Mr McPherson; Attorney-General, vicepresident of Board of Trade' and Works; Mr Robinson; CommissioneF of Public Works and Minister of Water Supply, Mr Clarke; Railways and Mines, Mr Barnes; Lands, an«„ Wheat Scheme, Mr Oman; Chief Secretary, Major Baird; Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Mr Angers; Honorary Ministers, Messrs Pennington, McWliae and Hicks.