AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, 9 August 1920, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By T«l«gra.pn~Pwm Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. SYDNEY, August 7. The released Industrial Workers of tho World prisoners wore welcomed at a Town Hall meeting. In returning thanks they indicated that tho experience of the past four years was nothing to the task ahead in fightin/c for a solution of the bread and butter problem. Mr Hughes agreed to meet the coal miners' representatives in a further conference on Wednesday.

MELBOURNE, August 7. The Arbitration Act Amendment Bill, intended to widen tho scope of tho pfetent Act, was read a first timo in the douse of Representatives.

Another seotion of the House of Representatives and the Senate is organising opposition to the agitation for tho transfer of the capital to CanberraAir Peavoo told tho Senate that tho Government was considering some tangibio way of recognising the great effort of Parer and M'lntosh in flying to Australia. MELBOURNE, August S. The Governor-General, at an impressive ceremony at Government House, presented the King's Colours to the A.IF. units in the Australian Artillery Forces.