AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 157, 12 October 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright [ Sydney, October 11. The Labor Bureau report states that the past month easily holds the record for general industrial activity in the State. AN OVERDUE STEAMER. Hobart, October 11. Some anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamer Strathnairn, five days overdue from Dunedin. THE VARAWA CASE. I Melbourne, October 11. ' The full court ordered each side in the Varawa case to pay its own costs. THE PRICE OF FLOUR. i Sydney, October 11. ] The Millers' Association has reduced the price of flour to £9 10s. BOWRON BROS. | Sydney, October 11. ■ At a meeting of the Australian directors of, Bowron Bros., export and trading company, Sir J. Carruthers was elected chairman and Mr. Owen Cox managing director. The allotment of shares was made. RIFLE SHOOTING. Sydney, October 11. At the Rifle Association meeting Sergeant Frank, of New Zealand, won £2 in the Referee Match. Speck and James won £1 each in the Members' Match. THE MOUNT LYELL MINE. Melbourne, October 11. For the half-year ended September 30 the Mount Lyell Company's consignments of blister copper totalled 4024 tons, compared with 4*387 for the halfyear ended March. I COLD WEATHER. I . Sydney, October 11. The weather is bitterly cold in the eastern States. Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia report heavy falls of, snow in the highlands. I AN INVALID ACT. I Melbourne, October 11. | I The High Court has delivered judgf ment on the question raised in the boot [ trade dispute by boot manufacturers that the Commonwealth Arbitration Act was unconstitutional and beyond the power of Parliament in so far as it purported to empower the Court to I make a common rule. The Court unaniI mously decided that the Act was invalid on the grounds raised, and refused a common rule. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' RECORD. Sydney, October 11. At the Manchester Unity celebrations the Grand Secretary stated that the Commonwealth's total adult population was 2,500,000, of whom 260,000 were connected with the friendly society movement, whose funds totalled £3,670,000. In New Zealand there were 22,000 members and funds totalling £600,000. ANGLICAN VESTMENTS. Melbourne, October 11. A meeting of the Church Defenca League adopted a resolution repudiating the authority of the Privy Council on the question of vestments, and de-, precating autocratic rule by one bishop in doubtful points of doctrine and cere-j I roonial.