AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 16676, 7 March 1918, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL. SYDNEY, March 7. (Received March 7, at 9.15 a.m.) A strike has been declared at the Broken Hill Central and Broken Hill Junction Mines, and 800 men are idle. LITHGOW STRIKERS’ OPTION. MELBOURNE, March 7. It is announced that no unmarried strikers at the Lithgow Small Arms factory (N.S.W.) who are eligible for the Army will he re-employed. TOO MUCH BOXING. SYDNEY. March 7. The military have prohibited all 20round boxing contests. THE COMMONWEALTH STEAMERS. MELBOURNE, March 7. A BUI is to be introduced in tho House of Representatives giving the Controller of the Commonwealth lino of ships the same powers as a railway commissioner, so as to free the service from political influence. CRIME IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, March 7. The annual of tho New South Wales Prisons Department shows that the number of prisoners received in 1917, exclusive of inebriates, was 8,169 —the lowest on record. CHURCH UNION. SIDNEY, March 6. Tho Methodist Conference resolved ,that an endeavor should be made to bring about a union of the Methodist, Presbvterian, and Congregational Churches.