AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18411, 18 May 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Oipyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, May 17. General Booth has arrived. He leaves for a tour of New Zealand on June 3. The Labour Council has issued a manifesto denouncing the establishment of unionists’ co-oporativo stores, and urging tho workers, without delay, to devote their whole energies to uniting their class in one organisation for the complete overthrow and abolition of capital. Mr Hughes is considering an application by tiie Socialist Labour Party for permission to send a commission to Russia. As a sequel to the undergraduates Commemoration Day’ the InspectorGeneral of Police has written to the secretary of the Undergraduates Association, stating that the conduct of those who formed paid of the procession was such as to render it wholly impossible for permission for any future similar procession to be granted by the Lord Mayor. He also stated that he would take fine care that such unseemly conduct would not happen again in tho Town Hall. The fleet has gone to Melbourne to greet the Renown. It presented tho finest display ever witnessed in southern waters.