AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 6 December 1911, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Picss Assn —By telegraph—Copyright, (Received Ike-ember o, 9.5 a.tu.) SYDNEY, This Da.>. Tlie l.jrl Mayor's aHowar.ce is .;:- creased from £lCweJ to £ISOO per air/iu;n. Owing to L-.\'ir.aiL'!y hu.-w ra.ei .'.i the WisUmii wh.at di'struts," th i wh i. shippers have withdrawn i)iH;:.u>j:";r. ;..i----til an estimate oi the eh.mage _s ol> tained. The director of labor, referring to the favorable conditions previvil ig 1:1 the l-Tate, says the present year is the best in the decade. Prices of primary products throughout the year veld high. The city of -.Sydney is extending a.ri thriving marvellously. At the inquiry -into increased rents, a witness said the Irish Land Lords wnv saints compare with Sydney land lords. He knew small places where the rims were doubled and tenants were compelled to submit because it was impossible to do better elsewhere. MELBOURNE, This Day. 'the Government statists" pre-harwst wheat estimate is 26,571,000 bushels, an ave rag,- of 11.45. The area estimated to be harvested is 77,089 acres below hist year. The requirements for the State for food seed are estimated at 9.000,000. leaving an exportable surolus of 17,500,000. -M_r •). i?. Hell, representative of the National Saiolrs' and Firemen's Union has arrived. The object of his mission to Australia is to promote federation of' Seamen's Associations of the Commonwealth with the British Associations.