AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

j GENERAL ITEMS. ' Br Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 8, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 8. A- tram conductor, Thomas Gallagher, died as a result of injuries received in the Coogee smash. Mr. Storey, who has returned from the Premiers' Conference, stated that farmers will receive 9s a bushel for wheat for local consumption all the year round. This would not involve an increase in the price of bread. The Tennis Association has received a cable from America agreeing to Tilden, Johnston, Washburn, and Hardy playing in Sydney. Melbourne, and Adelaide during January. During the last week the police made a hundred arrests, recovering property of a total value of £.IOOO. Perth, Nov. 8. A train smash occurred on the Millar Company's private line. It was a timber train on which there were only the crew and a number of mill hands. The victims were for the most part crushed under the sleepers. Besides eleven killed, two were seriously injured. Received Nov. 8, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 8.

Nine members of the crew of the Commonwealth steamer Bellata have been convicted on charges of disobedience and combining to impede the navigation of the ship. They received sentences of from four to twelve weeks' imprisonment. The charges arose through the cooks refusing duty unless an extra hand was engaged, and the men refusing to commence the voyage without the cooks. The Seamen's Union now threaten .to hold a stop-work meeting to discuss what action to take.

Mr. Justice Edmunds has decided to subpoena fifteen members of the Assembly to give evidence before the commission of inquiry into the question of members' salaries.

Melbourne, Nov. 8. The Governor-General is ill with diphtheria, hut not x dangerously.