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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 April 1911, Page 5

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AUSTRALIAN,

[PVR PRESS ABSOOIATIOK —fOPTRIOHX. 1 SYDNEY TRAM COLLISION. SYDNEY, April 13.—An empty tram car collided with a laden car at Randwick. Seven were slightly injured. RECORD CROWDS IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, April, 14.—There are at present record crowds in the city. The trains and trams are not equal to the demand. The telephone exchanges dealt with ninety thousand calls yesterday, this being easily a record. DAIRY EMPLOYERS' UNION. SYBNEY, April, 14.—A meeting of representatives of dairying centres has formed a union, the primary object of which is to combat the claims for higher wages and better working hours of the Rural Workers Union, when they come before the Arbitration Court. ATTEMPT TO DERAIL A TRAIN. SYDNEY, pAril, 14.—A serious attempt to derail a train was made at Broken Hill, a heavy log- being placed on the line. Beyond severe jolting no damage resulted. EXTRA POSTAL WORK. SYDNEY, April, 14.—The postal authorities are preparing for increased business on the ina\iguration of the penny postage on May, Ist. ARRESTED AFTER NINE YEARS. SYDNEY, April, 14.—The police have to-day arrested a man named William Hall, who escaped from custody nine years ago, while serving a sentence for burglary. He has been refuging in New Zealand, having been part of the time in gaol there. s PAPER MONEY. MEYBOURNE, April, 14.—1 t is estimated that when the issue of bank notes cease on July Ist there will be sufficient paper money to meet a demand up to eleven millions. HONOURS FOR DOMINION PREMIERS. MELBOURNE, April, 14.—The English universities have expressed a desire to confer honorary degrees on the visiting Dominion Premiers.

A BIG NUGGET. BRISBANE, April, 14—A twelvepound nugget found at Ebagoola, in North Queensland, has yielded two hundred and twenty pounds' worth of gold. FEDERAL PREMIER'S FAREWELL SPEECH. PERTH, April, 14.—Mr. Fisher, addressing a farewell gathering prior to leaving for London, said that the Government had decided that the transContinental railway should be one of the first measures of next session. Mr. Fisher hoped, as a result of the Imperial Conference, people would be hi ought to see that it was wrong to spend money on ships for the destruction of humanity. SYDNEY CEMENT HANDLING DIFFICULTY. SYDNEY, April 14.—The Sydney wharf labourers are refusing to handle the bags of Portland cement on the ground that the dust is injurious to health. In order to get the men to handle the bags the company has provided a paper-lining fpr the bags, and offers an increase in pay to eighteen pence an. hour. The Portland Company's works are temporarily stopped on account of the wharf labourers' attitude, three hundred men being thus idled. THE SYDNEY SHOW. SYDNEY, 'This Day.—Eighty-three thousand attended the show yesterday, which was easily a record. "NO GOVERNMENT STROKE." SYDNEY, This Day.—When turning the first sod of the water works at Broken Hill the Hon. Mr. Griffith appealed to the men to show carping critics what was possible with the day labour system. He assured people that there would be no Government stroke. He would not interfere with the engineer regarding dismissals. SHORTAGE OF LABOR. MELBOURNE, This Day.— There is evidently no shortage of labour. Four hundred and fifty-one vacancies in the Defence Department factories attracted three thousand eight hundred and eighty applicants. TRAIN ACCIDENT. MELBOURNE, This Day.—As a train was drawing into Brighton the passengers opened the doors and four ladies on the crowded platform were struck and seriously injured.