AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 15907, 13 September 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

BROKEN HILL UNREST. Pre/;s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, September 13. (Received September 13, at 9 a.m.) As a result of the compulsory conference the Broken Hill miners have decided to accept Is per day rise and reference to the Arbitration Court, but they will take a referendum on the advisability of stopping work at midnight on Friday in order to make a 44-hours week. The enginedrivers. and firemen accepted the conference terms without amendment. PREFERENCE OF EMPLOYMENT. BRISBANE, September 15. (Received September 13, at 9 a.m.) The Government announce a policy of pieference to returned soldiers, also a general system of preference to unionists. EUGENICS. - PERTH, September 13. (Received September 13, at 9 a.m.) In tho Westralian Legislative Assembly a Bill providing for the compulsory notification of certain diseases and the inspection of male and female patients passed the committee stage. WOLFRAM" DISCOVERY. MELBOURNE, September 13. (Received September 13, afc 9 a.m.) The Inspector of Mines in the Northern Territory announces a payable discovery of wolfram in Hatch Creek.