MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 282, 14 November 1923, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The miners are on strike at seven collieries on th© northern fields of New South Wales owing to various grievances. The owners complain that while the Federation is requesting ©m. ployment for miners idled through lack of trade at West Wallsend, their colleagues in adjacent mines are ceasing work on the merest pretext or none.

The New Zealand and Australian Land Company made a profit of £25,373. The contingency fund is £67,000, and the dividend 6 per cent, tax-free. The sum of £23.373 was carried forward.

Advices received in Sydney state that fire destroyed the north eastern quarter of Chinatown at Rabaul and the loss is estimated at £200,000. Three hundred people were rendered homeless. The section destroyed consists mainly of tailors, storkeepers and sample rooms and bulk stores.

Helen Bishop, aged 26, attempted suicide by leaping over the Gap, Sydney. She missed the rock and struck the water, a distance of 200 feet. She swam to a fishing boat, and was rescued, and sent to hospital suffering from contusions and a probable fracture of the spine. This is the only case on record where a leap was not •fatal.

The “New York Leader,” a Labour daily, has suspended publication owing to the lack of funds. The “Leader” entered the field recently and was the successor to the “Call,” a morning Socialist organ.