AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17862, 7 August 1918, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph—Presa Association—Copyright. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. SYDNEY, August 6. The Trades Union Congress, to consider the reorganisation of union® on industrial lines, has been opened. Tie Press is excluded.

A BUTTER SHORTAGE. (Received August 6, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 6. , There is a butter shortage and Sussex Street is without supplies. For the first time in the history of the trade tho retail distributors were compelled to <ro without. It will be the miadle of September before the production is normal.

JEWEL ROBBERY CASE. , (Received August 6, 11 p.m.) j SYDNEY, August 6.

Walter Grant and William Taylor were committed for trial in connection with the jewel robbery and the shooting of a detective last month. Several other charge® of robbery and forgery were preferred against Grant.