AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1931, Page 7

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[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT;] 1 DARWIN COMMUNISTS. DARWIN, March 21. Nine men concerned in the demon stration at Government office on January 28, were, sentenced to imprisonment for short teijms.' SEAMEN’S WAGES \ MELBOURNE, March 21. The Arbitration Court reserved judgment in the Commonwealth Shipowners’ application for a reduction of ten per cent.-in seamen’s wages. N.S.W. FLOODS RECEDE ’ SYDNEY, March 20. The flood waters at Ardlethan, which rose ten feet in two hours, receded to-day,, leaving behind banks of silt in the homes of the people. The wheat stores escaped damage. - ' GIRL SWIMMER’S COURAGE ; - SYDNEY, March 21. Jean Cocks, the swimming champion while contesting a .race at Coogee Aquarium, dislocated her right shoulder at turning., Despite intense pain-, she continued and wion the event. LORD BADEN POWELL SYDNEY, March.,2l. .After a review of over seven thousand Scouts who made a brave show yesterday, when marching through the city, Lord Baden Powell visited the University, where he received an Honorary Doctorship of Law. MAIL ROBBED — BRISBANE, March. 20. One thousand pounds in Treasury notes mysteriously disappeared from a registered mail bag despatched, from Townsville. When the bag reached Cloncurry the seals were apparently intact, but the packet containing the money was missing. Three years ago, the same bank, the Queensland National Bank, ‘ lost five thousand pounds in transit to Melbourne.