EXTRA EDITION. LATE CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9002, 26 January 1906, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION. LATE CABLE NEWS.

JAPANESE FAMINE. [PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received January 26, 10.27 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 26. i The steamer lines trading to the East have offered the Government to convey iree five hundred tone of whtot to the famine districts of Japan. ARBITRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. STRONG DISSATISFACTION. (Received January 26, noon.) SYDNEY, January 26. A remarkable circular has been issued .to the Riley employees' representative of the Arbitration Court. It attacks the recent High Court judgments in reviewing the findings of the Arbitration Court and 6a-y6 the Arbitration Act haß now become a menace instead of a benefit to the industrial classes. All the penal and criminal sections of the Act remain, but all the other sections which gave the employer and employees opportunities of settling the conditions of their industries have been practically destroyed. Tue Arbitration Court, however anxious as it may be to do its duty, is- harassed by judgments which leave it with practically no powers. The ( circular urges the repeal or amendment of ; .th« Act. i