AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 321, 7 June 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A CO-OPERATIVE FAILURE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, June 6. The co-operative bakery and woodyard, financed by the Unionists at the Barrier, proved a failure, and it ha 6 been decided to dispose of both, CHINESE BOYCOTT RAISED. Melbourne, June 6. The Chinese are raising • their longstanding boycott against Japanese vessels. GOVERNMENT HOUSE. Melbourne, June 6. In view of the New South Wales Government taking possession of Government House, Sydney, the Federal Government proposes to secure permanent possession of Government House. Melbourne. THE SOLOMON GROUP. Sydney, June 6. Mr. Woodford, British Commissioner in the Solomon Group, reports that rubber and other plantations are developing at a great rate, but native labor is scarce. A BIG TRAWL. Melbourne, June C. The Federal trawler, while making a commercial test of the fishing grounds of the New South Wales and Victorian coasts, caught five tons of marketable fish in nineteen hours and (plenty mors was available if storage had been pro-, vided.

MOUNT MORGAN MINE. Brisbane, June 6. Mount Morgan returns for May show that the geld reduction works treated 8949 tons for 5900 ounces of gold. The copper reduction works produced 615 tons of blister copper, containing copper 600 tons, gold 7519 ounces. The total value of the output was £86,917. The shortage of labor affected the output.