AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 1 April 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MORE NUGGETS FOUND. By Cable—Prcsi Association—Copyright. Melbourne, March 31. Two more nuggets weighing 270 ounces have been found at Woahhawp mine. STRIKE OF RAILWAYIMEN. Adelaide, March 31. t One hundred and fifty men on the, Angaston railway work.* have struck owing to the employment of a nonuniouist. J MOL'XT LiKLL MINE. Sydney, March 31. The Mount Lyell returns from February 23 to March 22, inclusive, show that 30,007 tons of ore, also 49 tons purchased ore, were treated in the converters and produced 001 tons blister copper, containing, copper 033 tons, silver 43,475 ounces, and gold 87 ounces. A CARELESS WORKMAN. Sydney, March 31. The inquiry has disclosed that the recent explosion in Nyngan refreshment rooms was caused by gelignite. A workman placed it in a basket and forgot about it. FRAUDS OX THE CUSTOMS. Sydney, March 31. Besides the penalties imposed for motor frauds, Turner will have to pay €4200 under paid duty. FEDERAL NOTE ISSUE. Melbourne, March 31. The Federal notes issued are over £4,500.1100, and the gold reserve is £1,525,000. TAKING THE CENSUS. Sydney. March 31. An army of collectors is out distributing cards for the census taking on Sunday night. A COUNSEL CENSURED. Melbourne. March 31. Tn the Federal Arbitration Court the president warmly rebuked counsel appearing on behalf of respondents in the engineers' dispute for alleging that members of the union not only broke their agreements with impunity hut were encouraged by the Government. The president declined to listen to such remarks, and said he would not allow the Government to be spoken about in such a disrespectful and extravagant way. COTTON-GROWING IX QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, March 3L A representative of a hemp and cotton company in Berlin is visiting Central Queensland to settle a thousand cotton growers. The Government offered the company a block of forty square miles near Capella. The company is prepared to spend .£150,000 on the enterprise, and is willing to buy all the cotton produced.