AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9404, 31 December 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(By Elkothio Telegbaph-.-Cop?hight.. (Pbb Fbebb association/) ./.-.■ Dec. 30. The bankruptcy returns, show that during the year 352 were presented, whereof 293 were voluntary sequestrations. The liabilities were £176,880, assets wqre £119,376,-and deficiency £56,716. During th© previous year 381 petitions. with ha-, bilities £181,699 and assete £82,563. , It transpires that the overtures for reopening the Vancouver mail tenders, came, from the Merchants and Shipping' Conv pany, Ltd., of Sydney. They offer a. 15knot service from Melbourne via, Sydney, Brisbane, Fiji and Hawaii, to Vancouver. The Metropolitan .Jewellery Wages Board award refuses theclaip for a 44 hours week, which was fixed at. 48 hours. A gTant was made -of an advance in wages, makingr them slightly above, those ru ing in e u^Q AgTLE! Dec 30 . Sailed.—Casablanca, for.. Auckland. WARNAMBOOL, Dec. 30. Arrived.—Speculant, from. New Zea> land,

MELBOURNE, Dec. ,30. Both the Shipowners' Federation and the Federated SeameA have notified the President of the Arbitration - Court that they are agreeable to accept a provisional agreement which grants an all-round increase of ten shillings a month in and fixes overtime at the rate of. one and sixpence, instead of a shilling and one and threepence previously ruling and concedes preference to unionists. The seamen asked for £1 a month increase. A conference will be held to endorse the -provisional agreement as a' new fixed agreement. .*■■■■ - ■•-'