COMMONWEALTH CABLES.
AMERICAN SHIP TO BE SOLD. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGH'I Received 11 a.m. to-day. [SYDNEY, Nov. 6. The Admiralty Court has ordered the American barquentine, Forest Dream, to be sold for the benefit of the creditors. The master claimed £441, the mate and crew £950. BUDGET SPEECH DELAYED. SYDNEY, Nov. 6. Owing to the difficulty of trimming down his Ministers’ demands for increased departmental expenditure, Mr Lang will be unable to deliver his Budget speech on Tuesday and is postponing it for a week. FIRE ON RONA EXTINGUISHED. SYDNEY, Nov. 6. The steamer Rona, bound from Fiji to Auckland, wirelessed that a fire occurred aboard and was extinguished by the crew. Portion of her cargo of sugar was damaged by water. N.S.W. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. SYDNEY, Nov. 6. The Australian Labour Party’s executive carried a motion objecting to payment of members of the Legislative 'Council, and instructed the secretary to advise the Labour caucus of the executive’s decision, SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Received 12.5 p.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Nov. 6. George Fountain, who, as a result of domestic trouble, fatally shot several members of his family at Bundaberg early in September, was sentenced to imprisonment for life with hard labour.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 November 1926, Page 9
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199COMMONWEALTH CABLES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 November 1926, Page 9
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