LATEST AUSTRALIA NEWS.
Received May 17, 7p.m. < Mkmiournb, May 17. Ho Corporation contractors havo been fined for payiug snmllor wages than tho minimum stipulated in their contracts. A _ Adelaidk, Mny 17. is a raiuiature boom' in tho y shares of soma of tho Broken Hill mines known to contain sulphide ores, owing to a discovery by Mr Ashcroft, electrician at the Proprietary Mine, of a successful process of oitracting the zinc by electrolysis. Sydnkt, May 17. The Rowing Association lias instructed a crew not to take part in \ the eight-oared race at Brisbane to-morrow, because one of the Victorian crew is alleged to have raced for cash in a bicyclo race. It is bolioved the crew will ignore the instructions. Brisiiaxk, May 17. The drivers of bread carts have formed a union for the purpose of assisting the masters (o keep up the price of bread, which allows the
present rate of wages to be paid.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5029, 18 May 1895, Page 3
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156LATEST AUSTRALIA NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5029, 18 May 1895, Page 3
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