AUSTRALIA
Au-Wi'aliari and N Z. Cable Association.) COAL AGREEMENT. ' SYDNEY, July 23. The Maitland miners rejected the coal agreement, but Cessnock and Kurri both accepted. LATER. Four meetings at the Maitland fields decided to accept the coal terms. At Cessnock the meeting exceeded 3000 and there were only thirty dissentients. At West Maitland an adverse vote was carried by 138 to 127. HEAYDON MYSTERY. SYDNEY, July 23. The police state that the trunk discovered throws no light on the Coogee mystery. . The police are still searching for the trunk with the body, or for the carters who removed it from Coogee. OLYMPIC GAMES. MELBOURNE, July 24.' The Commonwealth promised to donate £3OOO towards the expenses of the Australian Olympic team if the Olympic Federation raises the remaining £lO.OOO necessary, or pro rata if the £lO,OOO is not raised. QUEENSLAND’S SUGAR. BRISBANE, 24. The sugar crop for 1923 is estimated to be 240,000 tons, which, with New South Wales cane and Victorian beet, makes a tota lot 258,000 tons for Australia. Queensland’s crop in 1922 was 288,000 tons. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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