Australian News.
(By Electric Telegraph — Copyright!.) {Per Press Association). Received Jan. 26, 10.27 a.m. SYDNEY. This Day. The steamer lines trading to the East have offered the Government to convey free five hundred tons of wheat to the famine districts of Japan. Aremarkal.de circular has been issued by Mr Riley, the employees' representative oti the Arbitration Court. He attacks the recent High Court judgments. In reviewing the findings of the Arbitration Courts he says the Arbitration Act has now become a menace- instead of a benefit to the industrial e lasses. All the penal and criminal sections of the Act remain, but all the other sections which gave the employer and employees opportunities of sell ling the conditions of their industries have been practically destroyed. The Arbitration Court, however, is as anxious as may be to do its duty, but is harrassed by judg-nieuts which leave it with practically no powers. He urges the repeal or amendment of the Act.
Mrs Walsh, returning from a visit to her mother, accompanied by her two children, got off the track in the Warren distriet, and wandered about ill the dreadful heat. Both children perished of heat and thirst and the demented mother was rescued-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8198, 26 January 1906, Page 5
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