AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WESTRALIAN WHEAT YIELD. B, Official figures of Western Australian w the -ea sown grain was 1,336.642 acres, and 13,903,36<5 bushels, an increase of 80.WL acres and 1,555,285 bushels compared with the previous season. australianTslands mails. Melbourne, July 25It. is understood the Federal Government has arranged with Burns Philf.and Co for the renewal of the contract for the carriage of Pacific Islands mails, on practically the same terms as those in the existing contract. THE GOAL INDUSTRY Sydney. July 25. The coal tribunal decided that the colliery proprietors’ application for a 33 1-3 per cent, reduction in wages ana the cancellation of the existing award should be dismissed in order to avoid State industrial chaos, and the claims will be heard after the miners’ claims are disposed of. THIE YEA MU/IDER. x Melbourne, July 25. Further arrests have been made in connection with the Yea murder, in which a woman’s body was found in a river showing evidence of assault.

COUNTRY REPORTS FLOODS. Sydney. July 25. A cyclonic disturbance passed over the city without further damage, but the Hunter. Manning and Hawkesbury rivers districts report floods. The threatening storm striking the Ulimaroa enabled her to establish a rec-ord passage. The gale hit her astern and drove her forward several hours ahead of time.