AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 23 August 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

SYDNEY. Aug. 22. A Gazette Extraordinary has been published proclaiming Sunday next a Day of Humiliation and Prayer in consideration of the serious calamities from which the State is suffering by reason of the protracted drought. The coroner at Broken Hill, at the inquest on the South Mine fire' o n July 30, found that the outbreak was due to incendiarism. A further 593 Germans have been deported. BRISBANE, Aug. 21. Two sugar mills in the Cairns district have closed down owing to the shortage of bags. MELBOURNE, Aug. 22. The Council of the Farmers' Federal Organisation adopted a platform which includes extension of the Commonwealth/ Shipping Line by the inclusion of large fast steamers, and the encouragement of all forms of co-operative enterprise. It wa s resolved that each , State shall run producers' candidates for both the House of Representatives 1 and the Senate at the next elections.