AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1796, 17 May 1912, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. THE SINGER CASES. Sydney, May 16. In the Singer Sewing Machine Co. cases, the third charge against F. D. Brown, of stealing £41 10 s of the company's money, was dismissed. No evidence .was offered. SHIPPING TROUBLE. The High Court granted the coastal steamship owners' association's appli•cation for a prohibition restraining the Arbitration Court and the Merchant Service Guikl of Australasia from proceeding under an award made in April, -_.il. HITTING UP THAT TIRED FEELING. (Received May 17, 11.25 a.m.) Sydney, May 17. - The High Commissioner is hearing an application on behalf of the shipping companies connected with - the coal venel case, to fix the date of the "hearing of the appeal. Counsel admitted that it was. an application for adjournment, as he was unable to have the printing done by July. The Chief Justice, in declining the application, declareel there were still two months during which enough printing could be done to cover ail th© cases heard in the Court for several years. "The fact of the matter is that somebody is too tired!" LABOURITES WANT STATE TO MAKE BREAD. (Received May 17, 11.25 a.m.) Sydney, May 17. The Trades and Labour Council has decided to urge the establishment cf State bread-making factories.