VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1921, Page 1

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN.

By TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. MOUNT MORGAN WAGES. * BRISBANE, June 20. Mr Theodore anounced he has received a communication from Mount Morgan Coy. proposing sliding scale terms fo r resumption, to he bettered as tho copper and gold markets improved. Mr Theodore added that tho proposal word possibly lead to a resumption. He was submitting it to the unions. LABOUR CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, June 20. The All Australian Labour Unions Conference opened here to-day. There are over 400 delegates present. They are representing the various industrial and Labour political organisations of all the States of Australasia. PRICE OF PETROL DOWN. SYDNEY, June 20. The Profiteering Court has reduced tlie wholesale prices of kerosene and benzine by one shilling per case to 19s and 29s respectively. M.P.’S DEATH. SYDNEY, June 20. The death of William Kearsley, a member of the New South Wales Assembly, took place to-day. ANOTHER SMALLPOX CASE. (Received This Day at 10.40' a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A further ease of smallpox has been reported among the Niagara passengers at the quarantine station. It is the mother of the first patient. Contacts at present in quarantine, number five, All are relatives. NO WHEAT POOL. ADELAIDE, This Day. Government have definitely decided there shall he no compulsory wheat pool for the next crop. ANTHRAX FATALITY. BRISBANE, This Day. A man has died in the general hospital from anthrax poisoning. He purchased a shaving brush at a Japanese second-hand shop. The brush has since been boiled for nine hours, but the microbes are still alive.