AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 June 1924, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, June 25. Cabinet has decided to appoint Mr. D. S. Edwards to the District Court Bench in succession, to Judge Hamilton, who is retiring. BRISBANE, June 25. Cabinet has decided not to interfere with the decision of the city council to permit Sunday games. HOB ART, June 25. The small steamer Seymour has been wrecked on Darlington beach. Details are meagre. It is presumed that the vessel went ashore during the heavy gales that prevailed timing the weekend.

MELBOURNE, June 25. Two working men, brothers, John and Alexander Horrocks, have departed for England to prosecute their claims to the Horrocks estates, comprising properties in the Migan district,' Lancashire, including the famous Horrocks calico business and numerous coal mines said to- be producing an income, of nearly £1,000,000 annually. The-bro-thers secured funds to make the journey and prosecute their claims bv issuinoten pound bonds entitling the "holder to receive £IOOO in the event of the claims proving successful. These were freely subscribed. The, estate has been the subject of litigation for many vears *1- - heUt yield in Victoria, 'for the 1923-24 season was 37,795,704 bushels an average of 15.4 bushels to the acre" NEWCASTLE, June 25. for Ne ' v Zealand.— Aus.-JN .Z. Cable Assn. MELBOURNE, June 25. Tne secretary of the Australian Railways Unions has lodged an application whh the registrar of the Commonwealth Aibitration Court for a compulsory conference with the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales Victoria and South Australia on the’ question. of wages and conditions. The claim is one of the most important ever lodged, as over 25.909 employees arc involved. r,,, ... . SYDNEY, June 25. ine Aibitration Court re-registered the Bakers’ Union, which was de-regis-tered following the recent bakers’ strike.