AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10496, 6 December 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FLOODS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. DEBRIS COVERS RAILWAY. Received Thus Morning, 12.22 o'clock SYDNEY, December 5. Floods have occurred in the Western Da starlets. At-Young the railway was' covered with' debris' for a considerable distance. A mixed train was'.desrafilfed while travelling sflfowiy. (Nobody wlas. injured. STATE LOTTERY. PROPOSED FOR NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received This Moraiing, 1 o'clock.) SYDNEY, December 5. Ini tihe Assembly, Mr Osborne moved to introduce a xSMiJJ to provide for a. State lottery similar to TattersalTs. ■' The debate was adjourned. COAL VEND CASE. COST TO THE GOVERNMENT. j Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock , MELBOURNE, Dec! 5. The total paid to counsel 1 in the. coal vend aase by the Federal Govenianen't was £7451. M!SSi.-_ VESSEL. SUiRPGSED TO HAVE FOUNDERED. (Received - This Morning, 1 o'clock* 1 ) • SYDNEY, December 5. It "is now .believed'- that the Mary Isabel, eighty-eight days-out - from, "Wlhangape to Sydney, has foundered withi-all haaidsr. - • The acting superintendent of navigationl lias, opened an enquiry, paa 1 - ticul'arily iniftd the personnel, of the crew and how the vessel foundered.

WHARF LABOURERS.

~JK SYDNEY TROUBLE

TEA HOUR SETTLED

Reecived This Morning, 12.15 o'clock

SYDNEY, Decemiber 5. Tlie ship owners and wharf labuoirers! have agreed that the tea hour be from \five to six o'clock, work to resume at six. This has been ia big bpne "of conit'entcbn, and the only thing now requiring settlement rs> the question of play and overtime.

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

ADVANTAGES FOR THE WORKERS.

(Received December 5, 10.30 a.m.)

SYiDNEY, December 5. Giving evidence More tine Daylight Saving Enquiry Ctomimission, the secretary of the Labour Council 1 said he thouglit. it would be an advantage from the hygienic point of view for the workers to have a chance of gettmng more open-air recreation. Extra daylight would be a factor making for more overtime work.

FEDERAL CIVIL SERVANTS.

RILL TO PLACE THEM UNDER ARBITRATION ACT.

(Received December 5, 10.30 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, December 5. In the Federal' Htoi'se of Representatives) a. Bill' to place cavil servants under the Federal Arbittra-tfan Act was- read a second time. The debate tlifsclosed that several members- of the Labour Party opposed the measure for various reasons.

MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.

CASK BEFORE ARBITRATION COURT.

(Received Dewmibur 5, 9.-10 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 5. Mir Just-it** Higgans has comimenoed the hearing of the Merchant Service Guild case, a claim for better conditions and wages for masters and officers' of inter-State steamers;. Several companies' have already signed agreements, and their names have been struck out. I •