AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

■ • __ MR. HUGHES MAY GO TO E LONDON , By Tel6srar>h--Preßß Aaeociatlon-OofflyrieM [ Melbourne, January 13, It is stated that Mr. Hughes and l Mr. Cook have reached au agreement, t the details of which have not _ been divulged. Early meetings of their fol-. s lowers to discuss the matter will be i held. It is now considered probable 3 that Mr. Hughes will go to London ■ to attend the Imperial Conference. " POLITICAL' DEVELOPMENTS. (Rec. January 15, 0.30 a.m.) Melbourne, January 14. . ! : Political developments are unlikely till after the meeting of the Hughesites on Wednesday and the Liberals on , Thursday. EFFECT OF RETRENCHMENT. (ReC January 15, 0.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 14. The secretary of the Railway Workj ers' ■ Union states that already four thousand are idle and sis hundred more will be out of work shortly owing to B Government retrenchment: in railway ! works. I COAL" TRADE IM THE EAST. Sydney, January 13. t Mr. Suttor, Trade Commissioner in b the East, estimates that the coal trade 3 in the East, lost £10,000,000 during the 8 past few years through strikes. a ' .— ; NEWCASTLE COAL EXPORTS. Sydney, January 13. The Newcastle coal exports for the . year totalled 2,037,508 tons, a decrease 3 of 1,068,669 tons. Exports to New Zealand decreased by 154,000 tons.! Oversea exports were 604,885 tons compared with 1,168,589 tons last year. ; A DREADFUL CRIME. Sydney, January 13._ 'A' horrible crime was discovered the bush at Rockdale, where a child v eleven years of age was outraged and 7 strangled. An arrest has been made. PUBLIC.WORKS EXPENDITURE. (Rec. January 14, 5.5 p.m.) -Sydney, January 14. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining loan money the expenditure on publio works for the half-year has been cut down to three million sterling.