AUSTRALIA
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
ULIMAROA’S CREW.
SYDNEY, January 29. A further settlement was effected of -the union dispute, which, until last week, had held up the Ulimaroa for three months. The point at issue was a claim by the seamen for trelve pounds overtime. At a conference between the Company officials and the representatives of the seamen, the Company -agreed to pay the ‘ amount.
CYCLONE in >.A. PERTH, January 29. A cyclone struck the coastal districts in the vicinity of Broome, and caused considerable damage. The schooner Mena was blown ashore in Beagle Bay. Fifty-one people aboard managed to reach shore safely after a hazardous swim oj: 500 yards. All roads are blocked by fallen trees. Many windmills were overturned. Ihe Beagle Bay mission station suffered severely, but so far as is known, nobody was injured.
PREMIER AND COUNCIL SYDNEY, January 30.
Referring to the suggested move by opopnents of the Council Abolition Bill, to organise a petition to the Governor to dissolve Parliament, Mr. Lang says that it is now apparent that the Nationalist politicians, assisted by the Nationalist press, are prepared to bring about a first class constitutional crisis, in their defence of the Chamber of life nominees. The first move of the Nationalists, he says, was to incite the Nationalist majority in the Legislative Council to destroy all Labour bills not approved by Mr. Bavin and his colleagues. It was hoped that the Government would either meekly accept the dictation of the life nominees, or throw the country into the turmoil and expense of another general election. The Government, however, emphatically declined to accept dictation either from the undemocratic and non-representative council or from the leaders of a political party so decisively rejected by the electors six months ago. It appears that a new line of attack is to dictate to the Governor and insolently to instruct him how best to give effect to the policy of the Nationalists.
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