AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1921, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WHOLESALE MEAT PRICES. i By Telegraph —Press Assn.— , > Sydney, July 15. • Owing to the market being over-sup- i gjlied with stock the sales Were he’d up. The wholesale prices quoted were: For mutton 3d, beef 2M to 44d per lb. The retail price has nut yet fafien. REBATE GN WOOL FREIGHTS. Sydney, July 15. Oversea shipowners have decided to i grant rebate of 10 per cent, in the freight on all wool. It is understood the Commonwealth Line will follow suit. COAL TRIBUNAL GOING ON. Sydney, July 15. ; Mr. Hibble proceeding with his in- '• quiries and with the Coal Tribunal on th? necessary assurances being forth- • coming from the miners’ representa- i lives that direct action shall cease. ■ COCKATOO ISLAND DOCK. ; Melbourne, July 15. 1 Air. McWilliams, leader of the Country Party, has issued an independent report on Cockatoo Island recommending that the latter and Garden Island • he used as repair shops only. He added t .that.the rejection of Admiral Clarkson’s! advice had cost the Commonwealth Woffle millions sterling and disastrously •retarded ship-building on a commercial Ixasis. THE RENMARK TRAGEDY. Adelaide, July 15. At the inquest in connection with th? Renmark hospital tragedy, the jury ,found no evidence of negligence on the j part of the staff, but recommended that no naked light should be used near inflammable material. J. AVIGATION ACT RESTRICTIONS. Melbourne, July 15. The' irritating restrictions of the , Navigation Act wJre experienced by Captain Lawrence, the Governor-Gen-eral’s aide-de-camp, who had booked from Plymouth to Melbourne by the Mantua. He was instructed to proceed to Sydney, but was unable to re-book and told he must journey to Sydney by train. Representations are being made to rectify matters.