AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 119, 18 May 1909, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] IS IT "CARROLL"? (Received.May 18, 10.30 a.m.V V SYDNEY, May 17. The weather is stormy, and bitterly cold. FOR THE GOOD OF THE BAIRNS. ADELAIDE, May 18. The inter-State congress of workers among dependent children passed resolutions asking that notification or births should be made withm seven days, and that infantile summer diarrhoea should'foe made a notifiable disease. SEAMEN'S DEMANDS. .SYDNEY, May 17. A conference between the coastal steamship owners and the Seamen s Union is progressing. The questions involved include the demand for increased overtime pay and preference to unionists. It is understood that there are good prospects of an amicable arrangement being arrived at.