AUSTRALIAN CARLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 5, 6 January 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CARLES.

(Received 11.45 a.m.) i TOWNSVILLE STRIKE ENDED. BRISBANE, this day. The go-slow strike oh the Townsvillc wharves has ended.

HIGHER PRICE FOR LINSEED.

SYDNEY, this day. The Necessary Commodities Commission has increased the price of linseed meal £3 a ton.

IRON WORKS CLOSED.

i SYDNEY, January 5. I Owing to the increased railway freight " rates imposed at the beginning of th< year, the llosWlns-Lithgow Iron Work; 1 haves stopped, rendering 750 employee: ' idle.* The Railway Commissioners ar< I considering a readjustment of freight - rates, failing which over 1,000 ]>eoplt - will be rendered idle.—(A. and N.Z.) 1 (Received 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Hoskins Company has closed al the works at Lithgow and elsewhere rendering three thousand idle. Unles: the increase of freight be suspended i will be impossible to reopen them.—(A and N.Z. Cable.)

INTER-STATE CRICKET.

MELBOURNE, January 5. Victoria, in the first innings agains South Australia, scored 005 runs —Par] making 228 and Armstrong 143. Witt; took two wickets for-104 runs, Luca two for 88, Rcndel three for 14Ti (Richardson one for 92, and Williams tw for 87. The batsmen took every adyar tage of a somewhat; weak attack i vigorous and stylish batting. —(A. an N.Z. Cable.)? ff In their second'innings the South Aus tralLins have lost two wickets for 9 runi (A. and K.Z. Cable.)

RAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES 9

SYDNEY, January 5. There have been further torrentis rains in the coastal and highland dil tricte. The inland districts have bern fited to a smaller extent.— (A. and N.Z.