AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

GENEKAL ITEMS. y By Teleeraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. After replacing a damaged wing Parer and Mcintosh landed at Avon Downs. They are proceeding to Cloncurry immediately. , The Arbitration Court .at Sydney refused a union's application for the variation of an award, which was asked for on the ground tiiat the men were thread emng to strike unless their demand was granted. Mr. Justice Curlewis Btated that, in future, any union that asked tor its case to be taken quickly, on ground that the men intended to strike would have its case put at the bottom of the list, otherwise law-abidine unions would suffer delay. - The Full Court at Sydney has delivered reserved judgment in the appeal on behalf of the trustees in the Norton estate against the decision in the claim against the Union Bank. The court, by a. majority verdict, found in favor of the trustees and entered a verdict for the trustees for £17,378. A number of Senators from States other than Xew South Wales, at a meetJug, opposed expenditure on Canberra. A deputation is waiting on Mr. Hughes in connection with the matter. The King and Empire Alliance movement has been formally launched. A constitution has been adopted, and a strong executive appointed. Its avowed objects are to discountenance disloyalty, and to keep Australia and its national life free from pernicious foreign doctrines calculated to impair the national spirit and interfere with dutv to the Empire.