AUSTRALIAN. VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1921, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

BV TELEGR I’H —I'll ESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. SHIP OWNERS’ ACTION . SYDNEY 5 Jan 7. The shipowners now state that they have decided to make a fight against what they term ever-changing agreements asked for by the men. They say that even if the stewards’ dispute is settled, the ships would again be held up because of the seamen’s and firemen's demands. The owners declare that until all disputes are overcome and there is a reasonable chance of giving their vessels a long period of uninterrupted service, they will be party to no move for a settlement. *

FALL IN prices. (Received This Day at 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan- S. According to a softgoods retailers opinion a general decline in prices is expected dairing the coming year. Warehouses regard a fall inevitable. Root manufacturers state there has been a twenty per cent fall since July. FANNY DUR-ACK retires. SYDNEY, January 8. Fanny Durnek announces her retirement from swimming, in consequence of the effects of an operation for, appendi-citis-and an attack of typhoid followed by pneumonia. A SWIMMER. SYDNEY, January 8. Boaurepaire is' visiting Sydney to compete against the Hawaiians. , unemployed. SYDNEY, -January 8. It is estimated there are sixty thousand unemployed in the Commonwealth as a result of the strike, 30,000 been in New South Wales. MELBOURNE, January 8. Renewed efforts to secure from Mr Hughes a tribunal have been unsuccessful. A DENIAL. MELBOURNE. January 8. Mr Hughes refuses to enter into a controversy regarding naval co-opera-tion in the Pacific, hut denying the stories of negotiations between the Dominions and America, so far as Australia is concerned. .