COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.
FAULT IN BARREN JACK
[UNITBD I’REHB ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT] SYDNEY, Dee. 9. A fault has developed in the Barren Jack dam, delaying the application of water irrigation for a year-. HEAT APOPLEXY.
Yesterday’s scorcher was responsible for a number of eases of heat apoplexy.
HOWARD SMITH COMPANY
The Howard Smith Company is issuing 250,000 pound shares, being the balance of the original 500,000 preference shares in the capital of the company, with the object of acquiring steamers for general purposes, including the purchase of the Caledonian colliery. A. MURDERER’S END. At an inquest on the body of Baker (who murdered his wife), a verdict was returned that death was due to self-ad-ministered strychnine. SHIPPING TROUBLE.
In the Merchant Shipping Guild case, the President of the Federal Arbitration Court refused to include companies who were parties to previous agreements still running. This excludes from tlie present, claims the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association, and six inter-state companies belonging to it, also the Melbourne Steamship Company.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3396, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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164COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3396, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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