VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

[p**. PBKSS ASSOCIATION—eoPTBiaST. 11 AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. SYDNEY, March, 23.—A deputation including iVllayor and the-jU,m-, versity Professors asked the Hon. Aid, Batchelor (Federal Minister) for a grant of twenty thousand pounds front the Federal Government .towards Dr. Mawson’s Australian Antarctic Expedition. Mr. Batchelor was sympathetic in his reply, but.said that he did not expect such a large demand.Ho thought it would be for ten thousand. He promised to consult the Cabinet.

A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION. SYDNEY, March, —An explosion of the contents of a basket wrecked refreshment rooms at Nyngan, and injured a woman and a boy. The basket had been lying in the rooms for some days, but what it contained is not known. CHARITY BEQUESTS. SYDNEY', March, 23. —Mrs Neale, who recently died at Potts’ Point bequeathed thirty-six housand live hundred to the Sydney hospitals and benevolent institutions, four thousand to the Methodist body, and a thousand to the Bush Missonary Society. JAPANESE AND NEW CALEDONIA SYDNEY, March 23.—T0-day one hundred and ten Japanese, including fourteen women, arrived in Sydney, en route for Now Caledonia to work in the nickel mines there. THE CHAFFINCH CONSPIRACY. PERTH, This Day.—ln the Chaffinch cases, one witness, in referring to a certain share transaction, said he considered there was nothing dishonorable in ‘ “bulling” or “bearing” the share market. Derose, a representative of the Gilgaru development syndicate,, detailed a conversation with Greenaway in December wherein the latter expressed the opinion that the mine had been “salted.” His reasons for this opinion were specimens taken from a trench contained hornblende which was not present on the property. STRIKERS FINED. Received this day at 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, This ' Day.—The industrial Court fined the men at Carcoar mines who recently went on strike £5 with half !a guinea costs each, or in default one' month’s imprisonment with hard'labour. PRESS NOT ADMITTED. SYDNEY, This Day.—The Labour Council is enforcing a resolution not to allow any reporters at a meeting, excepting members of the writers and artists union, which is affiliated to the Council. NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE. SYDNEY, This Day.—Owing to the slackness of tx-ade, large numbers of miners in the Newcastle district are unemployed. Strong pressure is being brought on the Government to provide relief work. LIBEL~ACTION. SYDNEY, This Day.—Mrs Newell, wife of “Andy Newell,” a prominent cricketer, who disappeared some time ago, was awarded £2OO damages for alleged libel against the Sun newspaper for publishing an article, purporting to be founded on a letter received by a friend from Newell, wherein he stated that he went away for reasons of a domestic character. Defendants were granted a stay of proceedings. A BIG BLAZE. Received this day at 1.10 p.m. SYDNEY, This Day.—A fire destroyed Davy and Sons flour mill at Pyrmont. The damage which amounted to £IO,OOO was covered by insurance;" " 1